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The ethics of using deception to gain institutional access

Laura Huey published in an edited collection on Ethical Dilemmas in International Criminological Reserach.

What cultural hierarchy? Cultural tastes, status and inequality

Anders Holm was part of a group that published in the British Journal of Sociology.

#ButNotMaternity: Analysing Instagram posts of reproductive politics under pandemic crisis

Kaitlynn Mendes co-wrote in the European Journal of Cultural Studies.

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