The Rise of Professional Society lays out a stimulating and controversial framework for the study of British society, challenging accepted paradigms based on class analysis. Perkins argues that the ...non-capitalist "professional class" represents a new principle of social organization based on trained expertise and meritocracy, a "forgotten middle class" conveniently overlooked by classical social theorists.
'A true magnum opus. No social historian can afford not to read it.' – Asa Briggs 'Accessible to the general reader, indispensable to the scholar and a solid achievement of synthesis and clarity.' – The Observer
From Latin humanists to popular writers, Italian Renaissance culture spawned a lively debate on vocational choice and the nature of profession. InThe Culture of Profession in Late Renaissance Italy, ...George W. McClure examines the turn this debate took in the second half of the Renaissance, when the learned 'praise and rebuke' of profession began to be complemented with more popular forms of discourse, and when less learned vocations made their voice heard.
Focusing primarily on sources assembled and published in the sixteenth century, McClure's study explores professional themes in comic, festive, and popular print culture. A pivotal figure is Tomaso Garzoni, a monk whose popular encyclopedia,Universal Piazza of all the Professions of the World, was published in 1585. A funnel for earlier traditions and an influence on later ones, this massive compendium treated over 150 categories of profession - juxtaposing the world of philosophers and poets, lawyers and physicians, merchants and artisans, teachers and printers, cooks and chimneysweeps, prostitutes and procurers. If the conventional view is that Italian Renaissance society generally grew more aristocratic in the later period, this and other sources reveal a professional ethos more democratic in nature and bespeak the full cultural discovery of the middling and lowly professions in the late Renaissance.
This impressive and original study is one of the first books to combine mainstream sociology with feminism in exploring the subject of the professions and power.This is an important addition to the ...corpus of feminist scholarship... It provides fresh insights into the way in which male power has been used to limit the employment aspirations of women in the middle classes. - Rosemary Crompton, University of Kent
Essays on Professions Dingwall, Robert
2008, 20160513, 2012, 2008-03-01, 2016-05-13, 2016-05-16, 20080101
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Over the past 30 years Robert Dingwall has published an influential series of articles on the professions, especially law and medicine. This represents a substantial and coherent body of work in an ...important sub-discipline of sociology. This volume assembles the best of these writings in one single accessible place. The ten essays are republished in their original form, each bearing the traces of the time and place it was written. In sum, they provide a fascinating account of an academic journey. They are introduced 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, to evaluate, for example, the effects of the New Labour period on professional autonomy. The essays will be indispensable to sociologists with a general interest in the professions and to scholars of law, medicine and business.
Straipsnyje pateikiama bendra dabartinio teisinio profesijos statuso Europos šalyse apžvalga, pagrindžiant teisinio statuso ir profesijos pripažinimo poreikį. Apžvalga remiasi Europos Komisijos ...reglamentuojamų profesijų bendro vertinimo, paskelbto 2016 m., ir šiuo metu Europos Sąjungos bendrosios rinkos reglamentuojamų profesijų duomenų bazėje (prižiūrimoje Europos Komisijos) prieinamos informacijos palyginimu. Rezultatai rodo, kad, nors skirtingos Europos Sąjungos šalys narės reikalauja skirtingo kvalifikacijos lygmens, bendri reikalavimai dažniausiai atitinka Bolonijos proceso reikalavimus. Apžvalgoje taip pat analizuojamas reglamentavimo pagrindas ir reikalavimai, keliami profesinei narystei.
The sociology of professions has come full circle, leaving behind Parsons, his critics, and two generations of received wisdom. David Sciulli demonstrates compellingly that the sociology of ...professions advances the comparative study of civil society, democracy and rule of law.
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