The Sociology of Professions
An Emerging Perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7100747 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Douglas Klegon (Miami University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1978 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 259-283 |
| Publication date | 1978-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology of Work and Occupations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0093-9285 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/073088847800500301 |
| OpenAlex | W2020947680 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 64 |
| References cited | 32 |
Sociological studies of professions have traditionally focused on definitional list-making in an attempt to differentiate professions from nonprofessions. Despite recent criticisms of that approach, it has persisted. After first discussing inconsistencies and difficulties associated with the traditional approach, this paper explores an alternative perspective for analyzing professions. It is argued that the ability to obtain and maintain professional status is closely related to concrete occupational strategies and to wider social forces and arrangements of power. Such a perspective leads to a consideration of the social meaning of occupational tasks, the resources behind the emergence and continuation of professionalism, and the social consequences of professionalism
Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Meaning (existential · Perspective (graphical · Power (physics · Social science · Sociological imagination · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Engineering · Labor Movements and Unions · Management and Organizational Studies
Money Making, ‘Avarice’, and Elite Strategies of Distinction in the Roman World
Artists beyond Athens
Skilled Workers in the Ancient Greek City
The Profession of Mousikē in Classical Greece
Labour Specialization in the Athenian Economy
Professionalism, Specialization, and Skill in the Classical Spartan Army?
Neither Amateurs nor Professionals
Professionalism in Archaic and Classical Sculpture in Athens
Artists of Dionysus
Roman Sculptors at Work
Many Ancient Greek Occupations, but Few Professions
A Professional Roman Army?
A meta-analytic review of occupational commitment
Haken conference interpreters in Japan
Occupation-Related Volunteering
Professional homogeneity
Skilled Labour and Professionalism in Ancient Greece and Rome
Images of Parenthood in the United Kingdom and Japan
Institutional and Operational Knowledge in Work
Professional Socialization and Attitudes Toward Collective Bargaining
The Social Construction of the Professions
A qualitative study from a gendered perspective on transgender employee employment decision in Muslim-majority countries
The many meanings of mediation; a sociological study of mediation in Canada
Knowledge Acquisition Processes
Self-Identity as a Helping Professional
Situating Australian Youth Work Within the Professions
Freelance Photojournalists Redefine Their Work
Practical discourse
Unionization and deprofessionalization
Practical knowledge and occupational control
Professional skills development in a resource-poor setting
Archivists and Public Historians in the United States
Professional and academic training in organizational psychology
Professionalism or politics as a model for educators’ engagement with/in communities 1
Examining the Professional Status of Full-time Sociology Faculty in Community Colleges
Professing Professionalism
Good Advice and Little Medicine
The Paradigm Plague
Primary Schoolteachers in Nineteenth-Century France
An Analysis of Professional Deviance within Organizations
Change of Values during Socialization for a Profession
Campo Científico, Reconhecimento e Motivação Profissional em Programas de Pós-Graduação do Sul do Brasil
Chinese journalists' views of user-generated content producers and journalism
Journalistic Legitimacy Revisited
Client Influence and the Contingency of Professionalism
Professionalization of American Scientists
The Professionalisation of Social Work? A Case Study of Three Organisational Settings
Theoretical Trends in the Sociology of Occupations
Occupational Roles
Reconstructing Agriculture
The professionalization of Australian magistrates
The stealth rise of control
Economic and Sociological Approaches to Professionalism
Professionalization and Intraprofessional Competition in the Canadian Accounting Profession
The Origins and Resolution of Interoccupational Conflict
Toward a Theory of Professionalization
Deprofessionalization
The Legal Profession in the United States and Australia
Médicos e assistência médica
Reprofessionalization in pharmacy
Professional and business role orientations among practicing pharmacists
Genetic counseling
Reconfigured professional purpose in times of crisis
Professional Autonomy and Organizational Constraint
Educability, Schools and Ideology (RLE Edu L)
The professions and their prospects.
The professions
Professions and power.
Professions and professionalization
Scientists in industry
The Sociology of the Professions
Class inequality and political order
Profession and Monopoly
Deprofessionalization and its Sources
Professionalism
Doctors and Lawyers
The Deprofessionalization of Everyone
Power and Illness
Functional and Conflict Theories of Educational Stratification
Scientists in Industry
Engineering
The Proletarianization of the Professional
Professionalization and the Organization of Middle-Class Labour in Postindustrial Society
The Mechanical Engineer in America, 1830-1910
Industrial Society
Power and Illness
Lawyers and Their Society
Professional Autonomy and the Revolt of the Client
Professionalization and Stratification Patterns in an Industrial Community
The Professionalization of Everyone
Professions in Process
| Unique citing works | 64 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,36 |
| Citation span | 1979 - 2026 (48) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 64 |