SOC355H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Forensic Pathology, Public Health, High Standard Manufacturing Company
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They are claiming a particular knowledge that regular people don"t have access to. This knowledge that they have is formalized need to share it with other who want to become like you (replicate it) Use abstract principles to solve real problems. It is what professionals fight over when they claim they are professionals. It"s the fighting over abstract knowledge that sets professionals different from occupations. Need to have a knowledge system that is governed by abstractions. You see ex in medicine and law. You have obesity and alcoholism etc. med prof trying to take over. Actual task of a profession are human problems. We need to agree they need to sell to us that they are professionals who can solve our problems. Diagnose, infer and treat characteristics of what a professional does. You have to fight other away from knowledge and state your claim over it do it by a process called social closure.
