1. Comment on the Sociology of the Professions.
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Hall, Richard H.
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SOCIOLOGY , *PROFESSIONS , *OCCUPATIONAL sociology , *SOCIAL control , *POWER (Social sciences) - Abstract
The article comments on the article "The Sociology of the Professions," written by Keith Macdonald and George Ritzer, published in the August 1988 issue of the journal "Work and Occupations." The 1983 paper was an intentional replication of E.O. Smigel's content analyses of major journals. In these earlier time periods, analyses of the professions dominated what was then called occupational sociology. During the time period that author examined (1976-1982), such analyses had practically disappeared. Author's comments about this fact were meant more as a lament than as the support that is suggested in the Macdonald and Ritzer article. The claims of the professions as well as the social control of their expertise and their privileged position in society were to be related to market position and state institutions. Ultimately both the knowledge and the service claims of the professions and their privileges had to be understood in terms of power and political processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1988
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