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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... emphasizes the coherence and consistence' of a particular course of action, even though 'the goals and strategies pursued by a given group are not entirely clear or deliberate for all the members' (1977: 6). She also quotes Parkin (1971 ...
... emphasize the role of the state (for example, Johnson, 1980, 1982), or the importance of the ownership of the means of production (Murphy, 1984) might find it seriously deficient, while those scholars whose concern is with the nature ...
... emphasized; namely the importance she gives to the link between individual aspirations and collective action, in this case the drive for collective mobility (1977: 66-74). She also notes the importance of relations between rank and file ...
... emphasize the plurality of processes at work in a modern society and the lack of coherence of the objectives of dominant groups and the state. But in later work he seems inclined to give weight to the 'articulation which involved the ...
... emphasize populism and 'the General Will', respectively. Certainly one cannot imagine any more individualist social theory than 'rational choice', which in the hands of Elster (1989), for example, seems to regard 'collective' action as ...
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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 |