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标题：Review “The Routledge Companion to the Professions and Professionalism”
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作者：Lara Maestripieri
期刊名称：CAMBIO : Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
印刷版ISSN：2239-1118
出版年度：2016
卷号：6
期号：12
页码：287-289
出版社：Università degli Studi di Firenze
摘要：What makes an occupation a profession? What are the criteria that distinguishcertain activities from the standard white-collar worker? Specialised knowledge, socialprestige or strategies of social closure? These questions have been behind the birthof the sociology since its very beginning, starting from the pioneering book of Carr-Saunders and Wilson (1933) and the just slightly more recent article from Parsons (1939).However, the sociology of professions urges to renovate its own debate (Butler et alii2012), as post-industrial labour markets and globalisation have so profoundly changedits research object. Not only because in the last decades there has been an increasinginterest around processes of professionalization in emerging professions (Maestripieri2016), but also because established professions have not remained unchanged by therecent transformation determined by knowledge society (Cucca, Maestripieri 2014).Processes of hybridisation (Noordegraaf 2007 and 2011) have also inherently alteredthe way in which professionalism is performed in private and public sector, as marketlogics and organisational principles have been progressively introduced in the “thirdlogic” that characterises professions (Freidson 2001).