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184Revista de Estudos Empíricos em Direito
Brazilian Journal of Empirical Legal Studies
vol. 1, n. 2, jul 2014, p. 184-198
A EpistEmologiA DA pEsquisA quAlitAtivA1 // Howard S. Becker2
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