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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... concept of a professional project 187 The occupational group 190 Launching. the project: respectability and expertise 192 Qualifications: producing the producers 195 Building respectability 197 Professional unity, jurisdiction and state ...
... concepts of 'exclusion' and 'social closure' as mechanisms whereby the social standing of a group is achieved and ... concept for societal and intercultural analysis. No monopoly can be obtained and guaranteed in a modern society (nor ...
... concept of the professional project is not only valuable in exploring the exercise of patriarchal power, but it is equally useful in understanding the attempts of professional groups with female membership to advance their cause in an ...
... concept 'professional project' can be usefully applied. This is a term employed by Larson (1977), which forms the linchpin of her study of professionalization, and which has been used as the basis for much important work on the ...
... concept then the research strategy appropriate to it is phenomenological in character. One does not attempt to determine what a profession is in an absolute sense so much as how people in a society determine who is a professional and ...
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 |