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- ↑ University of California, Santa Barbara - Sociology - Howard Winant
- ↑ bibliovault
- ↑ "Howard Winant" (PDF). www.soc.ucsb.edu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-04-18. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
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