Essays on professions / Robert Dingwall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dingwall, Robert.

Series:

Ashgate classics in sociology.

Ashgate classics in sociology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Professions--Sociological aspects.

Professions.

Law.

Medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (187 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a timely and comprehensive collection of essays on professions, mainly in the fields of law and medicine, by an established academic. For the first time these hard to find or out of print papers are available in one place and are the culmination of the author's best work in the field.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 The Legacy of Parsons and Hughes; Chapter 2 Accomplishing Profession; Chapter 3 'Atrocity Stories' and Professional Relationships; Chapter 4 'In the Beginning was the Work...' Reflections on the Genesis of Occupations; Chapter 5 'A Respectable Profession'? Sociological and Economic Perspectives on the Regulation of Professional Services; Chapter 6 Closing the Market: Licensure and English Pharmacy 1794-1868; Chapter 7 Herbert Spencer and the Professions: Occupational Ecology Reconsidered

Chapter 8 Professions and Social Order in a Global SocietyChapter 9 'After the Fall ...': Capitulating to the Routine in Professional Work; Chapter 10 In Memory of Eliot Freidson: Is "professional dominance" an obsolete concept?; Endnotes; References; Author Index; Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-161) and index.

ISBN:

1-315-58024-1

1-317-14161-X

1-317-14160-1

1-281-23845-7

9786611238452

0-7546-8942-5

9781315580241

OCLC:

463187194