Research Handbook on the Sociology of the Professions

Edited by Tracey L. Adams

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This multidisciplinary Research Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the sociology of professions and their place in shaping society. Highlighting developments and cutting-edge research in the field, global contributors identify the challenges and opportunities impacting professionals, and the need for responsible leadership.

Keywords: Sociology Of Professions; Professional Work; Professionalisation; Professionalism; Social Inequalities; Change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035323074
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction to Research Handbook on the Sociology of the Professions

Tracey L. Adams

Ch 2 Oppressors or saviours? The role of professions in a changing world

Mike Saks

Ch 3 Professions and capitalism

Sida Liu

Ch 4 The moral work of professional coordination: insights from French pragmatic sociology

Marie Leth Meilvang and Anders Blok

Ch 5 Challenging professions theory: tensions and cooperation mechanisms in interprofessional teamwork in health

Helena Serra

Ch 6 Power is knowledge? (In)visible conflicts within contemporary professionalism

Christiane Schnell

Ch 7 Space, place and the sociology of professions: blanketing and differentiating effects in teachers’ work

Karolina Parding, Susan McGrath-Champ, Meghan Stacey, Scott Fitzgerald, Mihajla Gavin and Rachel Wilson

Ch 8 Transnational organizing of professional practices

Katja Maria Hydle and James Faulconbridge

Ch 9 Integrating care systems and the changing eco-systems of health and care work

Justin Waring, Simon Bishop, Jenelle Clarke and Bridget Roe

Ch 10 Dilemmas of professional work: the case of family physicians

Nancy Côté, Jean-Louis Denis, Andrew Freeman and Marie-Dominique Beaulieu

Ch 11 Professional hysteresis: the changing asymmetries of the medical profession in Türkiye

Elyesa Koytak

Ch 12 The data science epidemic: a perspective from the sociology of professions and expertise

Netta Avnoon

Ch 13 Digital healthcare management as organisational scripting: doctors making sense of how screen-level workflow management is transforming medical work

Sirpa Wrede

Ch 14 Behind the scenes of a nascent phase of data and artificial intelligence technologies’ integration into public administration and services: the boundary work of public sector professionals

Marta Choroszewicz

Ch 15 Absent professionalisation: exploring how a welfare state area fails to materialise in a professional domain

Tone Alm Andreassen

Ch 16 The ambivalent professionalisation of volunteer community first responders in England

Gupteswar Patel and Joana Almeida

Ch 17 Multiple professionalisms in childcare 0–3: the case of Barcelona

Lara Maestripieri and Raquel Gallego Calderón

Ch 18 Differentiation and solidarity in the making of creative professionalism: the case of Italy

Andrea Bellini and Silvia Lucciarini

Ch 19 Gender inclusivity in the legal profession: career opportunities and workplace climate

Fiona Kay and Martine Rondeau

Ch 20 Co-operating for a change? Tackling classed exclusions through collective ownership

Ian McDonald and Louise Ashley

Ch 21 The gendered nature of geographically mobile care work: how mobile healthcare workers navigate work, mobility and family life

Ivy Bourgeault, Lois Jackson, Audrey Kruisselbrink, Sheri Price, Pauline Gardiner Barber, Michael Leiter and Shiva Nourpanah

Ch 22 Institutional change and admission processes for regulated professions: the case of internationally trained engineers aiming to work in Quebec, Canada

Jean-Luc Bédard and Marie-Pierre Bourdages-Sylvain

Ch 23 Gendered professional ecology and political polarization in the legal profession in Brazil

Maria da Gloria Bonelli

Ch 24 The changing nature of state-profession relations: the case of three Canadian provinces

Tracey L. Adams

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