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In the last decades, a vibrant and ramified field of research in sociology of professions has been established in Europe as well as in the US. This becomes evident in an ever growing publication activity which does not easily lend itself to systematization. The problem becomes especially acute in teaching »sociology of professions.« To be sure, German speaking sociology of professions has, in the past years, contributed to a systematization of the field. However, these efforts are not particularly helpful when it comes to teaching purposes since, falling short of developing a genuine terminology, a genuine set of research questions and designs, they eventually present sociology of professions as a sheer duplicate of generic sociological theories. The article aims at systematizing perspectives genuine to the sociology of professions. It is argued that three such perspectives can be identified: The trait approach, the structural approach, and the power approach. |
