The Sociology of the Professions: SAGE PublicationsThis 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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... from the structural functionalist orthodoxy of the 1960s, to a much more pluralistic scene, in which action-based theory in a variety of forms played an important part. The change was of consequence for the sociology of the ...
Most important, however, was the removal of the professions from their privileged position in the sociological order of things: with this shift in emphasis from structure to action the sociological question changed from 'What part do ...
If the state is the omnipresent external feature of the professional project, the sine qua non of its internal structure is knowledge. The origins of any profession lie in the existence of an area of knowledge which those who possess it ...
... of structure; and for multiplicity of the bases of action, rather than for the predominance of material interests. Functionalist sociology and the professions The sociological study of the Sociological analysis of the professions.
Jackson (1970) quotes this passage from Hughes and so does McKinlay (1973a: 66) but both fail to grasp the fact that Hughes is talking in terms of action, not structure. Both appear to think that to shift from 'structure' terminology to ...
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Professions and social stratification | 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 |