The System of Professions: An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor - Couverture souple

Abbott, Andrew

 
9780226000695: The System of Professions: An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor

Synopsis

In The System of Professions Andrew Abbott explores central questions about the role of professions in modern life: Why should there be occupational groups controlling expert knowledge? Where and why did groups such as law and medicine achieve their power? Will professionalism spread throughout the occupational world? While most inquiries in this field study one profession at a time, Abbott here considers the system of professions as a whole. Through comparative and historical study of the professions in nineteenth- and twentieth-century England, France, and America, Abbott builds a general theory of how and why professionals evolve.

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À propos de l?auteur

Andrew Abbott is the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. For fifteen years, he was editor of the American Journal of Sociology.

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9780226000688: System of Professions: Essay on the Division of Expert Labour

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0226000680 ISBN 13 :  9780226000688
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1988
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