The System of Professions

An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Sociology
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Author: Andrew Abbott ISBN: 9780226189666
Publisher: University of Chicago Press Publication: February 7, 2014
Imprint: University of Chicago Press Language: English
Author: Andrew Abbott
ISBN: 9780226189666
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication: February 7, 2014
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Language: English

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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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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