Professional Powers: A Study of the Institutionalization of Formal Knowledge - Softcover

Freidson, Eliot

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226262251 ISBN 13: 9780226262253

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1988

Synopsis

Professional Powers "This is an immensely useful book for sociologists working in a wide range of sub-fields. It confirms Freidson's status among the leading exponents of the old Chicago tradition. This book is catholic in its reading, sophisticated in its arguments and cautious in its judgements."--Robert Dingwall, "Sociology" "As an attempt to provide a complex, wide-ranging account this book should be essential re... Full description

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About the Author:

Eliot Freidson was Professor Emeritus of Sociology in the Graduate School of Arts and Science of New York University. He received his undergraduate, M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago. Professor Freidson is past Chairman of the Research Committee for Medical Sociology of the International Sociological Association; he has also served on scientific advisory boards for the Social Security Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Center for Health Services Research and Development.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0226262251
• ISBN 13: 9780226262253
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 260