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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... institutions which are to be found at a level between the individual and the state. These he believed would save modern society from the breakdown in moral authority, which in his view threatened it. The development of this view by a ...
... 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 given class'. Larson contrasts this ...
... institutional areas of the market and the educational system, spelling out similar results but also generating tensions and contradictions which we find, unresolved or only partially reconciled, in the contemporary model of profession ...
... institutions altogether, while in the USA legislatures were only persuaded to take action after a considerable lapse of time. In England, Parliament was almost entirely unresponsive. The consequences for professional legal organizations ...
... institution, and in the intrinsic merits of procedural justice and legalism' (1987: 369). '[I]t is unlikely that professions will serve the state without any consideration of cost to themselves. But it is equally implausible to believe ...
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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 |