| The Professional Scientist: A Study of American Chemists Contributor(s): Rainwater, Lee (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1412818583 ISBN-13: 9781412818582 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $38.56 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Chemistry - General |
| Dewey: 540.237 |
| LCCN: 2011002344 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.5" W x 8.2" (0.65 lbs) 296 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This classic book, available in paperback for the first time, is based on a 1962 study of the American Chemical Society, one of the great U. S. scientific societies. The society has a membership educated in the fundamental scientific field of chemistry, whose knowledge and talents are essential to modem industrial civilization. Without chemistry, we would have neither automobiles, nuclear devices, nor all the varied products essential to our modern way of life.Chemists are caught up in the dynamic changes in our society. The explosive advance of scientific knowledge leads to increasing specialization until experts in one field may have little in common with those in another. Also, as the knowledge and skills of chemistry are incorporated in the workaday world of industry, more and more trained chemists spend their days in routine application and organization of their skills and knowledge.The unique element of this study is its assessment of the role and function of a professional society for its members. Not much is known of how professionals feel about their societies, what they expect of them, or how they function for their members.Such studies assume increasing importance as the trend toward professionalization incorporates more specialized skills and as the members of these professions look increasingly to their societies for assistance in establishing their rights and privileges vis- -vis the rest of society. This remains a unique effort at professional ethnography. |
Contributor Bio(s): Rainwater, Lee: - Lee Rainwater is professor emeritus of sociology at Harvard University and research director emeritus of the Luxembourg Income Study. He was an editor at Transaction, the associate editor of theJournal of Marriage and the Family, and a member of the review board of Sociological Quarterly. He has written various books and many professional journal articles, including Poor Kids in a Rich Country: America's Children In Comparative Perspective; Income Packaging in the Welfare State: A Comparative Study of Family Income; and Social Policy and Public Policy: Inequality and Justice. Strauss, Anselm L.: -Anselm Strauss (1916-1996) was an American medical sociologist and professor at the University of Chicago. He was elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1980. |