What Accounts for Sociocultural Change?: A Propositional Inventory

ISBN-10
089143058X
ISBN-13
9780891430582
Category
Social change
Pages
51
Language
English
Published
1962
Authors
John Gulick, Gilbert Kushner, Mickey Gibson

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