Models of Network Structure
Annual Review of SociologyPublished 1 August 1980
Ronald S. Burt
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The term intersectionality references the critical insight that race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, nation, ability, and age operate not as unitary, mutually exclusive entities, but rather as reciprocally constructing phenomena. Despite this ...Read More
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