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The Nature of Social Reality: Issues in Social Ontology (Review)

by Dave Elder-Vass | Jun 4, 2020 | Critical Realist Theory of Social Science, Culture, and Agency Debate, Theoretical Reflections

Review of Lawson, T. (2019). The Nature of Social Reality: Issues in Social Ontology. London and New York: Routledge. This review by Yannick Slade-Caffarel was originally published on the Developing Economics blog on June 2, 2020. Ontology is the study of being....

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