Situated Actions and Vocabularies of Motive

Mills, C. Wright·1940·American Sociological Review

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Authors: Mills, C. W.
Venue: American Sociological Review
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 1940-12
Volume: 5
Issue: 6
Pages: 904
ISSN: 0003-1224
DOI: 10.2307/2084524
Cited by: 1,731
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