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Fordism and Positivism in U.S. Sociology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Val Burris
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Special Section: Commentary on The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences: Positivism and Its Epistemological Others
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Social Science History , Volume 31 , Issue 1 , Spring 2007 , pp. 93 - 105
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Copyright © Social Science History Association 2007 

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