The Secret Life of Focus Groups: Robert Merton and the Diffusion of a Research Method
- 24 February 2010
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in The American Sociologist
- Vol. 41 (2), 115-141
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s12108-010-9090-1
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