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The Good News and the Bad News
There is much that is attractive about Michael Burawoy’s examination of the critical turn to a public sociology. I find plausible his account of the academic nature of 1970s radical sociology especially that mobilized notions such as Althusser’s “theoretical practice.” I also was cheered to read the account of the positive developments currently in train in the USA and especially with how socia...
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عنوان ژورنال: Anales del Sistema Sanitario de Navarra
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1137-6627
DOI: 10.23938/assn.0424