SOCY 122 Lecture Notes - Fall 2018 Lecture 5 - Harriet Martineau, Muqaddimah, Scientific method

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 122
• Professor: Sachil Singh

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