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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... Marx 37 The Neo-Marxian perspective 41 Weber on stratification 42 Weber and Marx 43 Historical classes 45 Contemporary classes 47 Economic and cultural capital 48 Social closure 50 Social action and stratification 50 The theory of ...
... Marx is not referred to in this context, the centrality of the 'producers' and their relationships, together with the tenor of other work by this author, (e.g. Johnson, 1977, 1980) leads one to see it as deriving more from a Marxian ...
... Marx, Weber and other European social theorists into her innovative development of the interactionist position, started the sociological analysis of the professions off on a new and rewarding theme. The professional project Larson's ...
... (Marx in McLellan, 1977: 222, 506), or the Registrar General's five categories. Any change in the class structure is explained in terms of individuals moving from one category to another as a consequence of changes in 'mode of production ...
... Marx and from Foucault, and it is to these that we now turn. The Marxian sociology of the professions is mainly concerned with two problems; professions in relation to the state and the proletarianization of professional occupations. As ...
Índice
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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 |