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Legal Ambiguity and Symbolic Structures: Organizational Mediation of Civil Rights Law

Lauren B. Edelman

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Reprinted in Paul Burstein (ed.), Equal Employment Opportunity: Labor Market Discrimination and Public Policy, New York: Aldine de Gruyter.

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Reprinted in Paul Burstein (ed.), Equal Employment Opportunity: Labor Market Discrimination and Public Policy, New York: Aldine de Gruyter.

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Reprinted in Paul Burstein (ed.), Equal Employment Opportunity: Labor Market Discrimination and Public Policy, New York: Aldine de Gruyter.

Key concepts: Ambiguity, Construct (python library), Compliance (psychology), Mediation, Institutionalisation, Meaning (existential), Set (abstract data type), Relation (database)

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