The Sociology of the Professions: SAGE PublicationsSAGE, 26 sept 1995 - 240 páginas This much-needed book provides a systematic introduction, both conceptual and applied, to the sociology of the professions. Keith Macdonald guides the reader through the chief sociological approaches to the professions, addressing their strengths and weaknesses. The discussion is richly illustrated by examples from and comparisons between the professions in Britain, the United States and Europe, relating their development to their cultural context. The social exclusivity that professions aim for is discussed in relation to social stratification, patriarchy and knowledge, and is thoroughly illustrated by reference to examples from medicine and other established professions, such as law and architecture. The themes of the book are drawn together in a final chapter by means of a case study of accountancy. |
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... Burrage (1988, 1990) and Halliday (1987) - that we must now turn. The system of the professions Most writers in this field have indeed made use of Larson's approach, if only in a general way; a few, however, have ignored it and some ...
... Burrage (1988; Burrage et al., 1990). In the first of these papers, Burrage examines the goals pursued by the legal professions in three societies while in the second, the authors put forward an actor-based framework for the study of ...
... Burrage's suggestion that we analyse professional behaviour, not by inferences or assumptions about lawyers' underlying interests or motives, but by observation of what they collectively have done or tried to do, that is, by their goals ...
... Burrage et al. (1990), in 'An actor-based framework for the study of the professions.' Apart from a passing reference to Abbott who is thereafter ignored, Burrage and his co-authors make no use of the authors referred to above and their ...
... Burrage reviews is that of Abel-Smith and Stevens (1961: 459-68), which includes an emphasis on the unique position, as compared with other professions, that the legal profession occupies, in relation to the state, a point which Burrage ...
Índice
36 | |
Professions and the state | 66 |
The problem of ethnocentrism | 71 |
England | 72 |
Law | 73 |
Medicine | 77 |
Summary | 78 |
The United States of America | 79 |
Three cases of professional formation | 105 |
Architecture | 107 |
Accountancy | 109 |
The state professions and historical change | 114 |
Conclusion | 119 |
Notes | 122 |
Patriarchy and the professions | 124 |
Women and modern society | 126 |
Medicine | 82 |
Summary | 83 |
France | 85 |
Medicine | 88 |
Germany | 89 |
Law | 91 |
Medicine | 92 |
Summary | 94 |
State crystallizations | 96 |
Conclusion | 98 |
Notes | 99 |
Professions and the state | 100 |
State formation and professional autonomy | 101 |
Social closure the special case of patriarchy | 129 |
Caring professions | 133 |
Mediation | 134 |
Indeterminacy | 135 |
Objectivity | 137 |
Social closure in nursing and midwifery | 138 |
Midwifery | 144 |
Uncaring professions | 149 |
Work knowledge science and abstraction | 163 |
Conclusion | 183 |
Building respectability | 197 |
Author index | 218 |