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

Marie Leth Meilvang and Anders Blok

Chapter 4 in Research Handbook on the Sociology of the Professions, 2025, pp 48-60 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: In this chapter, we discuss the relevance of French pragmatic sociology for the study of professions. Especially, we lay out how the theory illuminates questions of professionals’ moral work by conceptualizing issues of legitimate coordination as processes of uncertainty, tension, and moral pluralism. Here, we pay specific attention to Laurent Thévenot's pragmatic sociology of engagements, showing in what ways this framework contributes to the sociology of professions by relating it to Andrew Abbott's seminal ideas of inter-professional coordination and professional jurisdictions. We give an extended illustration of the value of French pragmatic sociology by analyzing a case of inter-professional work between engineers and landscape architects in the process of building a green, sustainable city.

Keywords: Pragmatic sociology; Moral work; Inter-professional coordination; Jurisdictions; Engineers; Landscape architects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035323074
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