System of Professions: Essay on the Division of Expert Labour - Hardcover

Abbott, Andrew

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226000680 ISBN 13: 9780226000688

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1988

Synopsis

In The System of Professions Andrew Abbott explores central questions about the role of professions in modern life: Why should there be occupational groups controlling expert knowledge? Where and why did groups such as law and medicine achieve their power? Will professionalism spread throughout the occupational world? While most inquiries in this field study one profession at a time, Abbott here considers the system of professions as a whole. Through comparative and historical study of the professions in nineteenth- and twentieth-century England, France, and America, Abbott builds a general theory of how and why professionals evolve.

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About the Author

Andrew Abbott is the Ralph Lewis Professor and Chairman of the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226000680
• ISBN 13: 9780226000688
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 456