Professions in Civil Society and the State

Invariant Foundations and Consequences
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-04-17831-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 110, 490 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 689 g

Reihe: International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology

Professions are central to any political sociology of major associations, organizations and venues in civil society underpinning democracy; they are not a subset of livelihoods in a mundane sociology of work and occupations. Professions in Civil Society and the State is at once elegant and startling in its directness and the sheer scope of its implications for future comparative research and theory. Not since Talcott Parsons during the early 1970s has any sociologist (or political scientist) pursued this line of inquiry. Sciulli’s theoretical approach differs fundamentally from Parsons’ and rests on a breadth of historical and cross-national support that always eluded him. The sociology of professions has come full circle, leaving behind Parsons, his critics, and two generations of received wisdom.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sciulli, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Soziologie und Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Kommunikation und Partizipation
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Politische Soziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

I. The Professions Literature Today
1. Approaches and Debates from 1930s to Today
2. The Situation on the Continent

II. Professionalism outside Historical and Contemporary Pools
3. The Paris Visual Academie
4. Corporate Governance and Delaware Courts
5. Reflections, Analyses, Appraisals

III. A Structural and Institutional Approach
6. Professions and Structured Situations
7. Independent Socio-Cultural Authority of Professionalism
8. Consequences of Professionalism, Immediate and Institutional
9. Fiducial Responsibilities of Professionalism
10. Occupational Orientations of Professionalism: “Dividing Line” in the Occupational Order
11. Additional Constitutive Qualities: Professional Governance, Behavior, Shared Cognition
12. Drawing Distinctions: Structural Qualities, Illustrations and a Rereading

References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

David Sciulli, Ph.D. Political Science, Columbia University, is Professor of Sociology at Texas A&M University. He is author of Theory of Societal Constitutionalism (Cambridge 1992), Corporations v. the Court (Lynne Reinner 1999) and Corporate Power in Civil Society (NYU 2001).