Theorizing Diffusion: Tarde and Sorokin Revisited
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Theorizing Diffusion: Tarde and Sorokin Revisited
This article is a call for volunteers to stand on the shoulders of Gabriel Tarde and Pitirim Sorokin, who dared to theorize the process of diffusion over a wide variety of disciplines. While all of the social sciences and humanities regularly produce case studies of diffusion, theorizing seems paralyzed. This paralysis stems from the ostensible incommensurability of diffusing items; their refus...
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عنوان ژورنال: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0002-7162,1552-3349
DOI: 10.1177/000271629956600112