Lawyer Satisfaction in the Process of Structuring Legal Careers.
This article proposes a new approach to the study of job satisfaction in the legal profession. Drawing on a Bourdieusian understanding of the relationship between social class and dispositions, we argue that job satisfaction depends in part on social origins and the credentials related to these orig...
| Published in: | Law & Society Review Vol. 41; no. 1; pp. 1 - 51 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
March 2007
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