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A Sociology Perspective: Critical Thinking & Social Problems

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OER Texts Used to Aggregate this textbook taken from the following texts. All text is licensed under the creative commons attribution-non commercial-share and share a like 4.0 international license unless otherwise stated:

Social Problems: Continuity and Change v. 1.0 | OER | published by Saylor Academy | 2012 | CC BY NC SA
1. https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_social-problems-continuity-and-change/index.html

Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking Version 2.0 by Mathew J.Van Cleave |OER CC BY | 2016 | Publisher: Lansing Community College
1. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-rkbctcWjo3OFhGODNSYTZPMVU/view?pli=1&resourcekey=0-iGfOufS0tNl2MRQa64ITng
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