Legal Ambiguity and Symbolic Structures: Organizational Mediation of Civil Rights Law
1992/05/01 by Lauren B. Edelman · 1,614 citations
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paper · doi:10.1086/229939
published in American Journal of Sociology 97(6), 1531-1576 (University of Chicago Press)
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Abstract
Reprinted in Paul Burstein (ed.), Equal Employment Opportunity: Labor Market Discrimination and Public Policy, New York: Aldine de Gruyter.
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