The System of Professions

An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor

Andrew Abbott (University of Leicester, Leiceister, UK)

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English

University of Chicago Press
15 August 1988

Sociology: work & labour; Economics & Business

In The System of Professions Andrew Abbott explores central questions about the role of professions in modern life: Why should there be occupational groups controlling expert knowledge? Where and why did groups such as law and medicine achieve their power? Will professionalism spread throughout the occupational world? While most inquiries in this field study one profession at a time, Abbott here considers the system of professions as a whole. Through comparative and historical study of the professions in nineteenth- and twentieth-century England, France, and America, Abbott builds a general theory of how and why professionals evolve.

By: Andrew Abbott (University of Leicester Leiceister UK)
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 23mm, Width: 16mm, Spine: 3mm
Weight: 680g
ISBN: 9780226000695
ISBN 10: 0226000699
Pages: 452
Publication Date: 15 August 1988
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Andrew Abbott is the Ralph Lewis Professor and Chairman of the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago.