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The social misconstruction of reality : validity and verification in the scholarly community /

In this provocative book Richard F. Hamilton examines the social determinants of knowledge, focusing on three well-accepted but erroneous social theories and looking closely at the ways social misconstructions originate and thrive. Hamilton finds that despite critiques by historians, some scholars c...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hamilton, Richard F.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [1996]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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