A collection of essays by Robert Dingwall on professions, especially law and medicine. This book introduces the essays with a foreword from the author, who places the work in context and offers some thoughts about how the work might be used by scholars in developing the field.
"In this book, cultural critic Marjorie Garber, who has written on topics as different as Shakespeare, dogs, cross-dressing, and real estate, explores the pleasures and pitfalls of academic life. Academic Instincts discusses three of the perennial issues that have surfaced in re…
What gave rise to our modern conceptions of professional status, and how did particular professions gain their privileged status? Magali Sarfatti Larson shows how our present conception and acceptance of profession was shaped in the liberal phase of capitalism. Larson argues tha…
This text is a systematic account of professionalism as a method of organizing work. The author shows how methods of professionalism have their own logic, encouraging different kinds of knowledge, careers, and ideologies.
Professional firms are forever trying to get their people to act like professionals - to do the right things. Though their various incentives may create employee compliance, these don't often encourage excellence. Taking issue with such methods, David Maister, the world's premie…
Professional firms are forever trying to get their people to act like professionals - to do the right things. Though their various incentives may create employee compliance, these don't often encourage excellence. Taking issue with such methods, David Maister, the world's premie…
