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Sociology Interest Areas and Adjacent Disciplines

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Sociologies of New Zealand

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The main accomplishments of the various specialties and overlapping areas with neighbouring disciplines within NZ over time are traced and their relationship within and to mainstream ‘Sociology’ sketched. Most remain rather latent subject areas where teaching is carried out at separate sites, while a few have developed active networks of scholarship and research.

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Crothers, C. (2018). Sociology Interest Areas and Adjacent Disciplines. In: Sociologies of New Zealand. Sociology Transformed. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73867-3_4

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