The World We have Made? Individualisation and Personal Life in the 1950s

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  The Sociological Review

• Publication date

  2011-05-01

• Fields of study

  Sociology, History

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  DOI 10.1111/j.1467-954X.2011.02001.x
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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