The Sociology of the Professions: SAGE PublicationsSAGE, 26 ¡.Â. 1995 - 240 ˹éÒ 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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... Freidson (1970a, 1970b) and was wholeheartedly endorsed by him (on the cover of the paperback edition) as being 'the most important book on professions to be published in years'. It represents a development of and a divergence from the ...
... Freidson's The Profession of Medicine (1970b). These studies were the outcome of a tradition which took as its subject matter the actions and interactions of individuals and groups, how they constituted their social worlds as ...
... (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]). This is ...
... Freidson (1983: 33) implies, it is a variant on the trait approach; but the problem of its value as a research model may well lie in the fact that the relationship of producer/consumer of professional services is itself a product of the ...
... Freidson (1983: 27); namely that 'profession' is a lay or folk term and that assessing whether an occupation is or is not a profession, is a 'semi-profession', or is more or less professional than other occupations, is what the 'folk ...
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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 |