Transmorphic organizations: racial segregation and discrimination against LGBTQ students at Christian colleges and universities.
Do organizations that previously discriminated against one marginalized group go on to discriminate against other marginalized groups? If so, why and under what conditions? We address this question by developing a theory of transmorphic organizations, which suggests that organizations' likelihood of...
| Publicado en: | Social Forces Vol. 105; no. 1; pp. 145 - 168 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Sep2026
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