Julia Evetts
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 252018 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Julia Evetts |
| PRENOMES | Julia |
| SOBRENOME | Evetts |
| ASSINATURA | EVETTS J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Nottingham |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 50 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 976 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 50 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1970 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ÍNDICE H | 15 |
Professionalism
Professionalism is a key concept in the sociologies of work, occupations, professions and organizations. But professionalism is changing and being changed. The article considers the different ways in which professionalism has been and is currently being interpreted. Beginning with a section on defining the field and clarifying concepts, the second section examines the concept of professionalism, its history and current developments. The third sec…
Similarities in Contexts and Theorizing
For a long time sociologists of professions have differentiated Anglo-American and European contexts for professional work. The presentation will address this distinction and argue that processes of convergence now render such differences somewhat obsolete except in historical accounts. In addition the convergence of professional systems and of regulatory states is also generating new inequalities both between professional groups themselves as we…
New public management and professionals in the public sector. What new patterns beyond opposition
New Public Management et professions dans l'État
Article issu du dossier débat : "New Public Management et professions dans l’État : au-delà des oppositions, quelles recompositions ?" La multiplication de réformes, au sein des administrations, mobilisant des principes et des instruments inspirés de la doctrine du New Public Management (NPM), a provoqué protestations et mobilisations collectives de la part de nombreux groupes professionnels dans de nombreux secteurs (santé, éducation, justice, t…
A new professionalism? Challenges and opportunities
Sociologists interested in professional work and occupations have differentiated professionalism as a distinctive and special way of controlling and organizing work and workers, with real advantages for both practitioners and clients. In this interpretation the analysis of professionalism is as an 'occupational value'. But professionalism is changing and being changed as professionals now increasingly work in large-scale organizational workplaces…
Sociological Analysis of Professionalism
For a long time, sociological analysis of professional work has differentiated professionalism as a special means of organizing work and controlling workers and in contrast to the hierarchical, bureaucratic and managerial controls of industrial and commercial organizations. But professional work is changing and being changed as increasingly professionals (such as doctors, nurses, teachers, social workers) now work in employing organizations; lawy…
Revisiting the Role of Formal and Practical Knowledge from a Sociology of the Professions Perspective
The article starts with the question of how the complexity of practical occupational knowledge is linked to and reflected in the vertical grading of an educational programme. The sociology of professional groups theory clearly differentiates between practical tacit knowledge and explicit formal knowledge, which is systemized in educational programmes. It presumes that those occupations whose practical work is more demanding and complex, such as d…
Professionalitätsdiskurs und Management
Die Konzepte von Profession und Professionalität werden immer stärker auf das allgemeine Verständnis von Arbeit und Arbeitnehmern in modernen Gesellschaften angewandt. Vertrauen, Autonomie und Kompetenz, die bislang als notwendige Voraussetzungen für professionelle Praxis erachtet wurden, werden jedoch kontinuierlich in Frage gestellt, verändert oder „reglementiert“. Dieses Paradoxon der Moderne gilt es zu umreißen und zu verstehen
Sociological Theories of Professions
Encountering Globalization
The market for professional services is increasingly international but comparisons have not been made between different professions nor on how state policies affect opportunities for mobility. This article considers three professions: engineers, physicians and psychologists and explores the similarities and differences in international labour market demand for occupations. It examines how state policies in four countries, Canada, Finland, France …
New Professionalism and New Public Management
The links between New Public Management (NPM) and the possible emergence of a new and different form of professionalism raise interesting and challenging questions for sociologists of professional groups. In this paper, an ideal-type (organizational/occupational professionalism) is used to examine the links between NPM and professionalism in the contexts of the public services of western post-industrial societies. Then the changes to and the cont…
Introduction
The analysis of professions in sociology has been dominated by within-state theorizing. This has been the case with explanations and interpretations of the historical development of particular prof
Professionalität durch Management? Neue Erscheinungsformen von Professionalität und ihre Auswirkungen auf professionelles Handeln
Die Zahl der beruflichen Tätigkeitsfelder, in denen das Selbstverständnis herrscht, eine ‚Profession’ zu sein, und in denen eine professionelle Arbeitsweise angestrebt wird, wächst beständig an. Die Ausbreitung professionaler Diskurse verblüfft, denn gleichzeitig kann beobachtet werden, dass Werte wie Vertrauen, Autonomie und Kompetenz - Kategorien, die die soziologische Professionsforschung bislang als untertrennbar mit den Konzepten ‚Profession…
The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance
This book was the first handbook where the world's foremost 'experts on expertise' reviewed our scientific knowledge on expertise and expert performance and how experts may differ from non-experts in terms of their development, training, reasoning, knowledge, social support, and innate talent. Methods are described for the study of experts' knowledge and their performance of representative tasks from their domain of expertise. The development of …
The Professionalisation of Foster Care
Recent developments in fostering services have led foster carers increasingly to identify themselves as professionals. Kate Wilson and Julia Evetts review some of the changes in the service which suggest that foster care arguably can no longer be seen as a voluntary activity and that the changes in the role now required can only be carried out successfully in the context of a fully professionalised service. However, the article draws on three soc…
Short Note
This article is not a critique of the Sciulli article (2005) but, instead, indicates some current and contemporary research questions about professionalism considered to be important to researchers in the field from North America, Europe and worldwide. The article begins by offering an alternative, more pragmatic, view of the definitional question and argues that most researchers have accepted definitional uncertainty and moved on. Current resear…
The construction of professionalism in new and existing occupational contexts
Professions, as a special (privileged) category of service‐sector occupations, are nowadays perceived as under threat from organizational, economic and political changes. Many of these threats concern the medical profession (and sometimes the legal profession). The use of the discourse of professionalism in other occupational contexts is seldom addressed, however, yet it is this, which is providing a much more interesting challenge to social scie…
Explaining the Construction of Professionalism in the Military
Julia Evetts, Explaining the Construction of Professionalism in the Military: History, Concepts and Theories, Revue française de sociologie, Vol. 44, No. 4, Profession: militaire (Oct. - Dec., 2003), pp. 759-776
The Sociological Analysis of Professionalism
The paper analyses and explains the appeal of the concepts of profession and professionalism and the increased use of these concepts in different occupational groups, work contexts and social systems. The paper begins with a brief preliminary section on defining the field where it is suggested that a shift of focus is required from a preoccupation with defining 'profession' to analysis of the appeal to 'professionalism' as a motivator for and fac…
Rethinking the concept of professionalism
Journalists in the UK have always been ambivalent about what form of occupational control to pursue. Although resistant to the structures of the conventional profession, they have embraced the idea of 'professionalism'. As the formations traditionally associated with Anglo-American professions become relevant to fewer and fewer employees and increasingly subject to external regulation it is more relevant, we suggest, to investigate how the discou…
Professional Occupations in the UK and Europe
(2002). Professional Occupations in the UK and Europe: Legitimation and Governmentality. International Review of Sociology: Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 159-171
New Directions in State and International Professional Occupations
The Professionalization of Knowledge in European Markets
The article considers one of the institutional contexts in which knowledge is controlled, reproduced and changed. These are the professional associations or institutions at the level of states and provinces, and increasingly the international federations of professions which operate at regional (e.g. European) levels. The article begins with a general statement about professionalization processes within states and how internationalization is affe…
Analysing Change in Women's Careers
This article addresses a number of related issues. It outlines and illustrates three dimensions of explanations about women's careers: cultural, structural and action dimensions. The three dimensions are considered as aspects of determinism and choice in women's careers and are illustrated with regard to different professional sectors. The article argues that change needs to be a prominent feature in the analysis of women's careers but that chang…
Professions in European and UK markets
Discusses the importance of professions within states asking questions such as “are these occupations monopolies whose anti‐competitive effects distort the social and economic organisation of society?” Continues by considering whether professions can serve both public and private interests. Looks at the international dimension and how professions are responding to the development of European Feferations, and attempts to assess their influence
Rethinking the concept of professionalism
Journalists in the UK have always been ambivalent about what form of occupational control to pursue. Although resistant to the structures of the conventional profession, they have embraced the idea of 'professionalism'. As the formations traditionally associated with Anglo-American professions become relevant to fewer and fewer employees and increasingly subject to external regulation it is more relevant, we suggest, to investigate how the discou…
The Sociological Analysis of Professionalism
The paper analyses and explains the appeal of the concepts of profession and professionalism and the increased use of these concepts in different occupational groups, work contexts and social systems. The paper begins with a brief preliminary section on defining the field where it is suggested that a shift of focus is required from a preoccupation with defining 'profession' to analysis of the appeal to 'professionalism' as a motivator for and fac…
Professionalism
Professionalism is a key concept in the sociologies of work, occupations, professions and organizations. But professionalism is changing and being changed. The article considers the different ways in which professionalism has been and is currently being interpreted. Beginning with a section on defining the field and clarifying concepts, the second section examines the concept of professionalism, its history and current developments. The third sec…
New Public Management et professions dans l'État
Article issu du dossier débat : "New Public Management et professions dans l’État : au-delà des oppositions, quelles recompositions ?" La multiplication de réformes, au sein des administrations, mobilisant des principes et des instruments inspirés de la doctrine du New Public Management (NPM), a provoqué protestations et mobilisations collectives de la part de nombreux groupes professionnels dans de nombreux secteurs (santé, éducation, justice, t…
New Professionalism and New Public Management
The links between New Public Management (NPM) and the possible emergence of a new and different form of professionalism raise interesting and challenging questions for sociologists of professional groups. In this paper, an ideal-type (organizational/occupational professionalism) is used to examine the links between NPM and professionalism in the contexts of the public services of western post-industrial societies. Then the changes to and the cont…
A new professionalism? Challenges and opportunities
Sociologists interested in professional work and occupations have differentiated professionalism as a distinctive and special way of controlling and organizing work and workers, with real advantages for both practitioners and clients. In this interpretation the analysis of professionalism is as an 'occupational value'. But professionalism is changing and being changed as professionals now increasingly work in large-scale organizational workplaces…
New Directions in State and International Professional Occupations
Short Note
This article is not a critique of the Sciulli article (2005) but, instead, indicates some current and contemporary research questions about professionalism considered to be important to researchers in the field from North America, Europe and worldwide. The article begins by offering an alternative, more pragmatic, view of the definitional question and argues that most researchers have accepted definitional uncertainty and moved on. Current resear…
Sociological Analysis of Professionalism
For a long time, sociological analysis of professional work has differentiated professionalism as a special means of organizing work and controlling workers and in contrast to the hierarchical, bureaucratic and managerial controls of industrial and commercial organizations. But professional work is changing and being changed as increasingly professionals (such as doctors, nurses, teachers, social workers) now work in employing organizations; lawy…
Analysing Change in Women's Careers
This article addresses a number of related issues. It outlines and illustrates three dimensions of explanations about women's careers: cultural, structural and action dimensions. The three dimensions are considered as aspects of determinism and choice in women's careers and are illustrated with regard to different professional sectors. The article argues that change needs to be a prominent feature in the analysis of women's careers but that chang…
The Professionalisation of Foster Care
Recent developments in fostering services have led foster carers increasingly to identify themselves as professionals. Kate Wilson and Julia Evetts review some of the changes in the service which suggest that foster care arguably can no longer be seen as a voluntary activity and that the changes in the role now required can only be carried out successfully in the context of a fully professionalised service. However, the article draws on three soc…
Professions and Patriarchy
New public management and professionals in the public sector. What new patterns beyond opposition
Women and Career in Engineering
Dimensions of Career
The paper considers the different ways in which sociologists have studied careers. It examines the various dimensions in careers research which constitute a developing research tradition. It highlights the problems associated with reification in analyses of career which are either implicit in particular models or are addressed in others but in ways which fail to resolve the difficulties. The paper suggests that the analysis of processes of change…
The construction of professionalism in new and existing occupational contexts
Professions, as a special (privileged) category of service‐sector occupations, are nowadays perceived as under threat from organizational, economic and political changes. Many of these threats concern the medical profession (and sometimes the legal profession). The use of the discourse of professionalism in other occupational contexts is seldom addressed, however, yet it is this, which is providing a much more interesting challenge to social scie…
Explaining the Construction of Professionalism in the Military
Julia Evetts, Explaining the Construction of Professionalism in the Military: History, Concepts and Theories, Revue française de sociologie, Vol. 44, No. 4, Profession: militaire (Oct. - Dec., 2003), pp. 759-776
Professional Occupations in the UK and Europe
(2002). Professional Occupations in the UK and Europe: Legitimation and Governmentality. International Review of Sociology: Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 159-171
International Professional Associations
Introduction
The analysis of professions in sociology has been dominated by within-state theorizing. This has been the case with explanations and interpretations of the historical development of particular prof
Encountering Globalization
The market for professional services is increasingly international but comparisons have not been made between different professions nor on how state policies affect opportunities for mobility. This article considers three professions: engineers, physicians and psychologists and explores the similarities and differences in international labour market demand for occupations. It examines how state policies in four countries, Canada, Finland, France …
Regulating Professionals
This article considers aspects of professional regulation in respect to professions in Poland. First, it examines the theoretical background to professional regulation and analyses the main institutional influences on such systems - such as professional associations, states and markets. Then it assesses such institutional influences in the Polish case: an example of professions in transition from a state to a market system of regulation. It is ar…
Professions in turbulent times
The sociological analysis of professional work has differentiated professionalism as a special means of organizing work and controlling workers and in contrast to the hierarchical, bureaucratic and managerial controls of industrial and commercial organizations. But professional work is changing and being changed. The need to reconnect professional occupations and professional organizations is identified and the challenges this presents to profess…
Revisiting the Role of Formal and Practical Knowledge from a Sociology of the Professions Perspective
The article starts with the question of how the complexity of practical occupational knowledge is linked to and reflected in the vertical grading of an educational programme. The sociology of professional groups theory clearly differentiates between practical tacit knowledge and explicit formal knowledge, which is systemized in educational programmes. It presumes that those occupations whose practical work is more demanding and complex, such as d…
Women in Banking Careers-a Science of Muddling Through
How can we understand women's typically incremental approach to career, which defies the goal-oriented career-building logic of management culture? A qualitative study of 40 women in banking explored this issue with 20 clerical workers and 20 managers. In the context of banking policies for equal opportunities, career breaks, management trainee schemes, some respondents described career goals and development in traditional terms, but most acknowl…
Professions in turbulent times
The sociological analysis of professional work has differentiated professionalism as a special means of organizing work and controlling workers and in contrast to the hierarchical, bureaucratic and managerial controls of industrial and commercial organizations. But professional work is changing and being changed. The need to reconnect professional occupations and professional organizations is identified and the challenges this presents to profess…
Equality of Educational Opportunity
The educational problems raised by the notion 'equal educational opportunities' are many. The problems are not only of a practical nature: how to achieve equal opportunities, but also of a philosophical kind relating to the general indeterminacy of our educational aims. In so far as differential educational achievements are not solely reflective of differential abilities, the education system is both socially unjust and economically wasteful. Thu…
The Sociology of Educational Ideas
This study, first published in 1973, examines the principles that lie behind educational dilemmas, and helps to clarify the difficulties of explanation, justification and practical action in the educational system. The author explores various key concepts in the education process, such as Intelligence, Equal Opportunity, Knowledge and Selection. She shows that different and often contrasting interpretations of these concepts imply certain assumpt…
The Sociology of Educational Ideas
The Sociology of Educational Ideas
Education and Social Control
Returning to Teaching
The term 'broken career' is used to describe the most common work pattern for married women teachers. The break in teaching service involves leaving teaching for a period, usually in order to have and to care for young children, and then returning to teaching when family responsibilities seem to permit. The article considers what were the significant features in the timing, the length and the type of the breaks in teaching service of a sample of …
Managing Childcare and Work Responsibilities
The article analyses the strategies that had been developed by women teachers to enable them to meet their family obligations to care for young children and, at the same time, develop their teaching careers. Using career history data from a sample of twenty-five women headteachers, from a midlands county in England, the article considers the expectations these women had set themselves with regard to certain childcare tasks and how they had manage…
Married women and career
This paper considers how the detail of individual life history and career biography can contribute to sociological understanding about women and career. Using career history material from married women primary and infant headteachers, the paper considers what were, for the women themselves, the structural conditions and the characteristics of the teaching labour market. This is followed by an examination of the variations in the attitudes and exp…
When Promotion Ladders Seem to End
This paper considers the career concerns experienced by some comprehensive school headteachers when promotion ladders in teaching in schools apparently come to an end. Using career history data from 20 headteachers, 10 men and 10 women, the age and gender differences in the experience of career concern are illustrated. The concept of career in sociological analysis is examined and the linking of actions and structures in the formation of career p…
Dimensions of Career
The paper considers the different ways in which sociologists have studied careers. It examines the various dimensions in careers research which constitute a developing research tradition. It highlights the problems associated with reification in analyses of career which are either implicit in particular models or are addressed in others but in ways which fail to resolve the difficulties. The paper suggests that the analysis of processes of change…
Women and Management in Engineering
Considers some of the problems which management presents for women′s careers in professional engineering. Using careers history data from 15 women engaged in professional engineering work in a high technology industrial organization, certain aspects of their promotion progress are examined. The interaction of aspects such as the women′s aspirations and certain organizational processes were producing particular consequences for the women′s careers…
Women in Engineering
This paper makes use of career history data from 15 women developing professional engineering careers in a high technology industrial company to examine certain educational concomitants of a non‐traditional career choice. Using an interactionist theoretical perspective the focus is on subjective careers, that is how the women actually experienced becoming an engineer. The educational influences on career choice that are identified are those perce…
Professions and Patriarchy
Careers and Partnerships
This paper considers the importance of the personal dimension in individuals' experiences of careers in teaching. The career and partnership strategies of a group of twenty comprehensive headteachers, ten women and ten men, are classified into three main types: single career, dual career and marital breakdown. The concept of 'strategy' is discussed and the main alternative strategies within the three types are described. Finally, gender differenc…
Career and motherhood in engineering
This paper considers what career identities were being developed by women professional engineers working in industry, in order to manage the cultural constraints posed by gender and career in engineering. Using career history data from 15 women, the different ways in which the women managed the cultural expectation of motherhood with their developing careers is examined. The individualistic nature of their solutions was apparent. In addition thei…
Women and Career in Engineering
International Professional Associations
Women and careers in engineering
Considers how organizational change and the restructuring of management in the organization are affecting the career opportunities of women professional engineers. Using a case study industrial organization, considers how management itself is changing and being changed. Suggests, therefore, that optimistic statements about increasing numbers of women in managerial posts in organizations need closer examination. The concept of management itself mu…
Professionalisation in European markets
The paper considers the addition of a new ‘order’, the European professional federations, to be included alongside the national controlling institutions of slates, professional associations and universities, in the analysis of professional processes. Beginning with a general statement about the theoretical background, data sources and internationalisation processes, the paper considers engineering as a case study and the development of European p…
Regulating Professionals
This article considers aspects of professional regulation in respect to professions in Poland. First, it examines the theoretical background to professional regulation and analyses the main institutional influences on such systems - such as professional associations, states and markets. Then it assesses such institutional influences in the Polish case: an example of professions in transition from a state to a market system of regulation. It is ar…
Managing the technology but not the organization
This paper focuses on gender and technology in the organization. It considers some of the difficulties experienced by women building careers as professional engineers in a high technology industrial organization in England. Using career history data from 15 women engineers, the paper examines the experience of gender in the organization and the attempts by the women to manage gender relations. The paper argues that the difficulties were not assoc…
Jobs for the girls? Change and continuity for women in high street banks
Banks have significantly changed their public policies about women’s access to management, to include career breaks and job sharing, with recruitment and promotion policies claiming equal opportunity for men and women. But has there been a revolution on the high street? A qualitative study of 40 women in banking explored questions of change and continuity with 20 clerical workers and 20 managers. From their perspective, men’s power in higher mana…
Professionalism beyond the nation‐state
Considers some differences between Anglo‐American and European modes of production and methods of professionalism. Looks at theoretical models of professions and states, taking into account Herbert Spencer’s work, as well as that of Weber, Durkheim and Foucault. Examines the implications a common European Union (EU) regime will have on professional services – focusing on formal mechanisms (such as international associations) and informal mechanis…
Analysing Change in Women's Careers
This article addresses a number of related issues. It outlines and illustrates three dimensions of explanations about women's careers: cultural, structural and action dimensions. The three dimensions are considered as aspects of determinism and choice in women's careers and are illustrated with regard to different professional sectors. The article argues that change needs to be a prominent feature in the analysis of women's careers but that chang…
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