SOC216H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: The First Year Experience Program, Racialization, Christopher Columbus Langdell
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Wilensky stage of professionalizing: requires formal training, is a full time occupation, licensing (credentials) and formal codes of ethics (the profession has its own). Larson says professionalization is for market control and exclusivity. Services o doctors and lawyers should be differentiated from other services. (doctors vs. midwives). Also includes persuasion of the public that they need these services (treating the flue). protection of market (licensing important) (paralegal vs. lawyers) Durkheim professions are autonomous and operate independently, source of community. Self-regulated and defend their autonomy by regulating their members. Professionalization is a political project (intimately tied with power, prestige and privilege. History lawyer seen as a way for upward mobility. Over time the barriers to enter was heightened. creation of law school and entrance exams. Law school adopted the case method (christopher langdell) Common law is largely based on precedent. Teacher"s don"t tell you the answer, they serve as a socratic guide (you ask them questions).
