Power in the Highest Degree: Professionals and the Rise of a New Mandarin Order - Hardcover

Derber, Charles; Schwartz, William A.; Magrass, Yale

 
9780195037784: Power in the Highest Degree: Professionals and the Rise of a New Mandarin Order

Synopsis

A revealing, in-depth study of the professional

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About the Author

Charles Derber is Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston College, where William A. Schwartz is a doctoral student in sociology. Yale Magrass is Professor of Sociology at Southeastern Massachusetts University.

From the Back Cover

Power in the Highest Degree, one of the most comprehensive studies of professionals ever undertaken, exposes professionalism as a double-edged sword that is transforming capitalist and socialist societies alike. Drawing on interviews with over 1,000 practicing professionals--about their work, politics, and personal lives--the authors show how, by dispensing self-interested and morally colored judgments as scientific truth, modern professionals are trying to monopolize what passes for objective knowledge.

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