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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... knowledge base. Finally, Chapter 7 draws these themes together to present a synthetic model of the professional project and illustrates its practical applicability to empirical cases. The theme of this book is therefore a consideration ...
... knowledge, susceptible of practical application, and a market, or market potential, given the social, economic and ... base and dominate the market in knowledge-based services, they will then be in a position to enter into a 'regulative ...
... knowledge has in fact made any adverse comment, while in my own work I have found it a useful starting point ... base appears to shift during the course of the book, so that the emphasis becomes much more Marxian in the later chapters ...
... knowledge base as sub-themes. The question of whether professions were becoming 'proletarianized' has been debated by sociologists for some time (Oppenheimer, 1973), but since the publication of Labour and Monopoly Capital (Braverman ...
... base which will provide a wider explanatory scope than the Weberian concepts ... knowledge and power; but he tackles it not in the limited way to be found in ... knowledge, which is organized into 'disciplines'. Now this term has two ...
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 |