Contingencies of Professional Differentiation

Autor:	Harvey L. Smith
Rok vydání:	1958
Předmět:	Differentiation Sociology and Political Science business.industry Process (engineering) media_common.quotation_subject Differential (mechanical device) Public relations Professional activity Independence Professional association Sociology business Adaptation (computer science) media_common
Zdroj:	American Journal of Sociology. 63:410-414
ISSN:	1537-5390 0002-9602
DOI:	10.1086/222264
Popis:	Social differentiation within modern professions creates differential sensitivity to developments within a profession and outside it. The various areas of professional activity and levels of professional organization respond to different contingencies or respond differently to the "same" contingencies. This process is highlighted during professional change. The Professional association represents selected interests within a profession; the resistances of environing professions permit only certain areas of professional expansion; institutional inertia within a profession provides brakes on certain forms of change; professional fictions selected out certain stereotypes at the expense of others; the public image similarly rewards certain activities and ignores others; variations in skills and their distribution make for variations in professional independence. Professional technology can be understood only as rooted in these problem areas of professional integration and adaptation.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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