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Mayer, K. U. (2007). Verhängnisvolle Pfadabhängigkeit? Probleme des Wissenschaftssystems der Zukunft. In U. Genov & R. Kreckel (Eds.), Soziologische Zeitgeschichte: Helmut Steiner zum 70. Geburtstag (pp. 233–253). Sigma.
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Diewald, M., Goedicke, A., & Mayer, K. U. (2006). Unusual turbulences, unexpected continuities: Transformation life courses in retrospective. In M. Diewald, A. Goedicke, & K. U. Mayer (Eds.), After the fall of the wall: Life courses in the transformation of East Germany (pp. 293–317). Stanford University Press.
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