Book Review

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Abbott A (2001b) Time Matters: On Theory and Method. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Coleman J (1990) Foundations of Social Theory. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

Fuchs S (2001) Against Essentialism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

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Lakatos I (1970) Falsification and the methodology of scientific research programmes. In: Lakatos I Musgrave A (eds). Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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Wolfe A (1992) Weak sociology/ strong sociologists: consequences and contradictions of a field in turmoil. Social Research 59: 759–79.