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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... objective is to draw attention to the variety of ways in which professions have developed and to the crucial place of the state and political culture in any explanation of this variation. At the same time this material is intended to ...
... objectives of Larson: ideal-typical constructions do not tell us what a profession is, only what it pretends to be ... Everett C. Hughes and his followers are the principal critics of the 'trait' approach and ask instead what ...
... objective; to hang around a workplace (preferably a hospital) and to find out what is going on (Glaser and Strauss, 1965: vii, 288). This clearly informs his view that to study professionalization was misleading, for it looked at form ...
... objectives seem entirely consistent with Larson's analysis except that there is no mention of monopoly and that economic aims are specifically excluded; which raises the question of why lawyers should strive so purposefully for these ...
... objectives of dominant groups and the state. But in later work he seems inclined to give weight to the 'articulation which involved the interrelated processes of state formation and professionalization' and the 'processes of ...
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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 |