SOC216H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Decision-Making, Northern Ontario, Legal Education
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Stages in professionalization (wilensky: full-time occupation, formal training, professional associations, licensing laws, formal codes of ethics. Market control (larson: differentiation and standardization of professional services, formalization of conditions for entry, persuasion of the public that they need professional services, state protection of the professional market. Functionalist theories (durkheim, parsons: professions arise to meet a need, serve a public good. Professions are self-regulated they set standards, discipline members, and defend professional autonomous. Weberian theories (weber, bourdieu, abel: professions seek to maximize their prestige, income, autonomy, claims to expertise. They establish monopolies on services: professionalization is a political project. Legal education: law school: many law schools adopts the case method model developed by christopher langdell, Dean of harvard law school: rather than using textbooks and lectures to describe legal principles and their application, the case method uses decisions from which students are expected to derive those principles. What does kennedy say about the first- year experience in particular? (the paper chase movie*)
