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The Social Construction of Sexual Harassment Law

The Role of the National, Organizational and Individual Context

Mia L. Cahill (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

144 Seiten

2001
Dartmouth Publishing Co Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7546-2120-1 (ISBN)

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Perceptions of law vary across cultures, within organizations or among individuals. The author considers the significance or variation at all three of these levels to expand the notion of social context and show how it fundamentally influences the understandings and implementation of legal rules. While relatively new to the legal arena, sexual harassment is firmly established as a legal wrong in the US and in many other countries around the world, including Austria. The author argues that the range of reactions to sexual harassment are the result of differing perceptions of both the social problem of sexual harassment and its solutions in law. She chose the laws of sexual harassment in Austria and the USA as the sites of the study due to the striking similarity in the substance of the sexual harassment laws in the two countries. However, while the legal definition of "harm" of sexual harassment in the two countries is substantially similar, the laws exist in very different systems and very different national contexts; allowing the author to isolate the role of national context on understandings of law.
Within the US and Austrian settings, the author has selected five organizational case studies and asks how the national context, organizational context and individual context contribute to perceptions of law.

The social context of sexual harassment - the national level; sexual harassment law in the US and Austria; the social context of sexual harassment - managerial interpretations of the law; the national, organizational and individual levels of social context; employee perceptions of illegal sexual harassment and employee support for punitive organizational actions. Appendices: methods; employee opinions about law survey.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.3.2001
Reihe/Serie	Law, Justice and Power
Zusatzinfo	bibliography
Sprache	englisch
Maße	223 x 156 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Sozialrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Besonderes Strafrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7546-2120-0 / 0754621200
ISBN-13	978-0-7546-2120-1 / 9780754621201
Zustand	Neuware