Power in the Highest Degree: Professionals and the Rise of a New Mandarin Orderndarin Order - Couverture rigide

Derber, Charles; Schwartz, William A.; Magrass, Yale

 
9780195037784: Power in the Highest Degree: Professionals and the Rise of a New Mandarin Orderndarin Order
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0195037782 ISBN 13 : 9780195037784
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1990

Synopsis

One of the most sweeping works of social criticism to appear in years, this work offers a bold theory of modern classes and a comprehensive portrait of the modern professional. Drawing on one of the largest studies ever undertaken, including interviews with over 1,000 professionals, the authors show how experts, claiming a monopoly on many types of knowledge, are radically transforming the economic and social order.

This book demonstrates how this has resulted in many citizens becoming deeply insecure about their competence to manage private and public affairs without professional guidance.

The authors make a case for a society that radically democratizes knowledge while retaining many non-exclusive aspects of professionalism.

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À propos de l?auteur

Charles Derber is Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston College, where William A. Schwartz is a doctoral student in sociology. Yale Magrass is Professor of Sociology at Southeastern Massachusetts University.

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press Inc
Date d'édition
1990
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0195037782
ISBN 13 
9780195037784
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
288
Coordonnées du fabricant
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