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Short Note: The Sociology of Professional Groups

New Directions

Julia Evetts

University of Nottingham

This article is not a critique of the Sciulli article (2005) but, instead, indicates some current and contemporary research questions about professionalism considered to be important to researchers in the field from North America, Europe and worldwide. The article begins by offering an alternative, more pragmatic, view of the definitional question and argues that most researchers have accepted definitional uncertainty and moved on. Current research questions include a reappraisal and reassessment of professionalism as a normative value – and a move away from market closure as the dominant paradigm. In addition, there are new directions in the analysis that focus on the discourse of professionalism as a mechanism for the control of work and workers.

Key Words: control • definitions • discourse • professionalism • research • questions • work

Current Sociology, Vol. 54, No. 1, 133-143 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0011392106057161
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