Professional Powers:; a study of the institutionalization of formal knowledge

Freidson, Eliot

ISBN 10: 0226262251 / ISBN 13: 9780226262253

Published by University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1986

About this Item

Paperback white quarto. xviii, 241 pages; 23 cm. Contents: Formal Knowledge, Power, and the Professions -- Identifying Professions -- The Category Profession -- Establishing Professional Positions: The Credential System -- The Position of Professionals in the Courts -- The Question of Professional Decline -- The Special Position of Professional Employees -- Professional Powers in Work Organizations -- Professions in the Political Economy -- The Institutional Transformation of Formal Knowledge. Professions -- United States -- Sociological aspects. Power (Social sciences) Occupations. Social Control, Informal. Previous owner stamp on front free end paper. Light spotting to fore edge and covers. Else clean and tight copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Professional Powers:; a study of the institutionalization of formal knowledge
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press, Chicago
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226262251
• ISBN 13: 9780226262253
• Binding: Paperback
• Seller catalogs:
  • Sociology
  • Politics And Social Sciences

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Synopsis

"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 reading for specialist students, and it should act as a stimulus for the extension of both empirical research and theory."—Alex Faulkner, Sociological Review

"Freidson's book is a concise introduction to the professions, challenging specialists with its puncturing of theoretically induced misconceptions and offering general readers a clear but critical entrée to the theoretical literature concerning this central aspect of modern society."—Andrew Abbott, Science

"This is a stimulating and well-written book which opens up a new perspective on the professions as well as contributing to existing debates."—David Podmore, Times Higher Education Supplement

About the Author

Eliot Freidson is a professor emeritus of sociology at New York University and visiting professor of sociology at the University of California, San Francisco. He is the author of several books, including Professional Powers: A Study of the Institutionalization of Formal Knowledge and Professionalism Reborn: Theory, Prophecy, and Policy.