SOCIOL 2SS3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Flexner Report, Nurse Practitioner, Proletarianization
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Costs a lot for the years of schooling. Professions: exclusive occupational group (ex. surgeons, applying abstract knowledge to particular cases. Abstract knowledge: work skill or technique one must master, emerges out of a system of knowledge, control of work lies in control of knowledge. Autonomy (jurisdiction: individual practitioners control their work, professional groups regulate their own members. Members of profession alone: decide who is qualified and who they"d like to interview. Authority over clients: people subjected to the work of professionals are expected to comply with instructions, authority may be institutionalized. May not hold true anymore: professional puts the interests of clients above their own. Occupation: kinds of work people are involves in. An attempt to translate one order of scare resource special knowledge and skills into another social and economic rewards (larson, 1977, pg. xii, emphasis added) Parsons (1939: rationality, authority, universal standards and criteria, rationalized myths professional groups can convince people.
