The "interdisciplinarity" in social sciences : an inquiry into selected accounts of modernity in Turkey

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Taburoğlu, Özgür
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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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Ö. Taburoğlu, “The “interdisciplinarity” in social sciences : an inquiry into selected accounts of modernity in Turkey,” Middle East Technical University, 2000.
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