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Re-reading the sociological imagination

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  1. University of Illinois, 618020, Urbana-Champaign

    Norman K. Denzin (professor of sociology, communications, criticism and interpretive theory)

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He is the author of several books, includingOn Understanding Emotion (1984),The Alcoholic Self (1987),The Recovering Alcoholic (1987),Interpretive Interactionism (1989), and the forthcomingFilm and the American Alcoholic. He is past president of the Midwest Sociological Society.

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Denzin, N.K. Re-reading the sociological imagination. Am Soc 20, 278–282 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02697833

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