The System of Professions

An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor

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Andrew Abbott

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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.

Author Biography:

Andrew Abbott is the Ralph Lewis Professor and Chairman of the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago.

Release date Australia

August 15th, 1988

Author

Andrew Abbott

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

452

Dimensions

16x23x3

ISBN-13

9780226000695

Product ID

3718743

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