The Sociology of the Professions: SAGE PublicationsSAGE, 1995 M09 26 - 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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... elite (Freidson, 1970b: 188). Freidson actually comes close to overusing 'autonomy', in the same way as some others overuse 'power', when he refers to medicine's 'autonomy to influence or exercise power over others' (1970b[1988: 383]) ...
... elite that sponsors it. Secondly he emphasizes that the cognitive and normative features of professions, which are conventionally used as elements in the definition of professions, are in the first place not stable and fixed ...
... elites, Larson notes as typical of the 'institutional approach' the view of Karl Mannheim, in which professionals would be seen as placed in the stratum of educated and socially unattached intellectuals, 'increasingly detached from a ...
... elites) Colleges, academic bodies, or in 'ancient' universities) 'Modern' means Systematic training and Registration, licensing. testing. (Institutionally (Institutionally located in the located in professional state) schools and ...
... elite of the profession. Her own research work has little to say about individuals because she is working from the kind of documentary material which deals with collectivities and their elites. However, these points would be significant ...
Contenido
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 |