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Eliot Freidson has written the first systematic account of professionalism as a method of organizing work. In ideal--typical professionalism, specialized workers control their own work, while in the free market consumers are in command, and in bureaucracy managers dominate. Freidson shows how each method has its own logic requiring different kinds of knowledge, organization, career, education and ideology. He also discusses how historic and national variations in state policy, professional organization, and forms of practice influence the strength of professionalism. In appraising the embattled position of professions today, Freidson concludes that ideologically inspired attacks pose less danger to professionalsa institutional privileges than to their ethical independence to resist use of their specialized knowledge to maximize profit and efficiency without also providing its benefits to all in need. This timely and original analysis will be of great interest to those in sociology, political science, history, business studies and the various professions.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Sociology

• Full title: Professionalism, The Third Logic
• Author: Eliot Freidson
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264
• EAN: 9780745603315
• ISBN: 0745603319
• ID: 02204217
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Weight: 392 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 155 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. May 2001

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