Professionalism

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Eliot Freidson has written the first systematic account ofprofessionalism as a method of organizing work. In ideal-typicalprofessionalism, specialized workers control their own work, whilein the free market consumers are in command, and in bureaucracymanagers dominate. Freidson shows how each method has its own logicrequiring different kinds of knowledge, organization, career,education and ideology. He also discusses how historic and nationalvariations in state policy, professional organization, and forms ofpractice influence the strength of professionalism. In appraising the embattled position of professions today, Freidsonconcludes that ideologically inspired attacks pose less danger toprofessionals' institutional privileges than to their ethicalindependence to resist use of their specialized knowledge tomaximize profit and efficiency without also providing its benefitsto all in need. This timely and original analysis will be of great interest tothose in sociology, political science, history, business studiesand the various professions.

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"This work is the capstone of Eliot Freidson's extraordinarilydistinguished career as a medical sociologist and student of theprofessions. The book summarizes a wide range of literature withinFreidson's innovative and profound theory of professionalism as a"logic" of institutions different from (and in conflict with) thelogics of the market and of bureaucracy. It should be requiredreading for anyone concerned with the vital issue of the importanceof - and contemporary threats to - the social values intrinsic toprofessionalism." Robert Alford, City University of New York "As learned and tightly argued as any work in the Weberiantradition, this book develops an ideal-type analysis ofprofessionalism that transcends the particular circumstances ofspecific occupations. Freidson's distinctions between professions,technical occupations and crafts are likely to inform allsubsequent discussions. Everyone who studies the professions willneed to take this important book into account." Steven Brint,University of California, Riverside
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