Legitimacy as a social process

Annual Review of Sociology

Volumn 32, Issue , 2006, Pages 53-78

  Johnson, Cathryn ^a   Dowd, Timothy J ^a   Ridgeway, Cecilia L ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural capital; Groups; Inequality; Legitimation; Organizational forms; Organizational practices; Status beliefs

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749166786     PISSN: 03600572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.soc.32.061604.123101     Document Type: Article

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