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Introduction

Introduction

Trust and Professionalism: Challenges and Occupational Changes

Julia Evetts

University of Nottingham

This introductory article provides the background and clarifies the concepts and questions to be addressed in the articles that follow. It begins with a section examining how trust and professionalism have been linked in the sociological literature on the professions. The second section outlines a different interpretation of profession and professionalism, which explains how these concepts are increasingly used as discourses of occupational change and social control. The article concludes by examining the consequences of a focus on the discourse of professionalism for the intellectual field of sociology of professional groups and of the claim that there has been a decline of trust, competence and discretion in professional work.

Key Words: discourse • ideology • occupational value • trust and professionalism

Current Sociology, Vol. 54, No. 4, 515-531 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0011392106065083
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