| The System of Professions: An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor Contributor(s): Abbott, Andrew (Author) |
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ISBN: 0226000699 ISBN-13: 9780226000695 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $36.63 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1988 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Labor - Business & Economics | Reference - General |
| Dewey: 331.712 |
| LCCN: 87-30206 |
| Series: Institutions |
| Physical Information: 0.98" H x 6.11" W x 9.11" (1.38 lbs) 452 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Abbott, Andrew: - 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. |