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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This took as its starting point the work of 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'.
But while this new orthodoxy deriving from interactionism and the work of Freidson became an important model for the sociology of the professions in the USA, in Britain a rather different power approach came to be accepted, ...
... one which developed more slowly, more insightfully and, most important, more radically. This was the view that basically sociologists were asking the wrong question. Like the Magrathean computer, Deep Thought, sociologists had, ...
In spite of this misperception, McKinlay does make the important point that from the sociological point of view 'there is no logical basis for distinguishing between so-called professions and other occupations' (McKinlay, 1973a: 65).
The third important element in Freidson's analysis is that professions have to strive to gain autonomy and, having once done so they can begin to establish a position of social prestige independent of their original sponsoring elite and ...
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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 |