Professions and Disciplines

Updated: 2/2/99                                          Libby Schweber

Introduction

week 1(2/4): Introduction: the professionalization of American society

week 2 (2/9, 2/11) Professionals in medicine and academia

Freidson, Eliot (1972) Profession of Medicine , Part I. (COOP/reserve)

Metzgter, Walter P (1987) "The Academic Profession in the United States" in Burton Clark, The Academic Profession: National, Disciplinary and Institutional Settings. pp. 123-208. (reserve)

Becher, Tony (1987) "The Disciplinary Shaping of the Profession" in Burton Clark The Academic Profession: National, Disciplinary and Institutional Settings. pp. 271-303. (reserve)

The Promise

week 3 Professions and the Moral Order (2/16, 2/18) Durkheim, Emile (1890-1900, published 1992) Professional Ethics and Civic Morals, chs. 1-3 (on professional ethics). (COOP/reserve)

Parsons, Talcott "Professions and Social Structure" in Essays in Sociological Theory (reader)

Duman, Daniel "The Creation and Diffusion of a Professional Ideology in Nineteenth Century England" Sociological Review 113-38 (reserve)

William J. Goode (1957) "Community within a community : the professions" ASR 22. pp.194-200 (reader)

 week 4 Science and the Moral Order (2/23, 2/25) Merton, Robert (1968) "Science and the Social Order" in Social Theory and Social Structure, ch. 12. (reserve)

Merton, Robert (1968) "Science and Democratic Social Structure" in Social Theory and Social Structure, ch. 13. (reserve)

Ben David, Joseph (1972) "The Profession of Science and its Powers" Minerva 10:3 pp. 362-383 (reader)

Ben-David, Joseph (1960) "Scientific Productivity and Academic Organization in Nineteenth Century Medicine" ASR 25, pp. 823-43. (reader)

Oberschall, Anthony (1972) "The Institutionalization of American Sociology" (reader)

Recent Theoretical Perspectives

week 5 The System of Professions I, 3/2, 3/4 Abbott, Andrew (1988) The System of Professions. ch.2 (COOP/reserve)

Freidson, Eliot (1972) Profession of Medicine , Part III. (COOP/reserve)

 

 week 6 The System of Professions II, 3/9, 3/11 Abbott, Andrew (1988) The System of Professions. chs. 5-7 (COOP/reserve)

Freidson, Eliot (1972) Profession of Medicine , Part II. (COOP/reserve) - skim!

 week 7 3/16 and 3/18 Take-home exam (mid-term)

Disillusionment: Professions, Science and the State

week 8 professions, disciplines and the welfare state 3/23, 3/25 De Swaan, Abram (1988) In Care of the State, chs. 6 and 7 (reader)

Nowotny Helga (1990) "Knowledge for certainty" in Discourses on Society vol. 25, pp. 23-41 (reader)

Bertilsson, Margareta (190) "The welfare state, the professions and citizens", in The Formation of the Professions, pp. 114-33.

Esquith, Stephen L. (1987) "Professional authority and state power" in Theory and Society 16. pp. 237-267. (reader)

 week 9 professions, disciplines and governability 4/6, 4/8 Foucault, Michel (1995) Discipline and Punish, Parts I and II. (COOP/reserve)

Johnson, Terry (1982) : "The State and the Professions" in Social Class and the division of labor" pp. 186-208. (reader)

Miller, Peter and Nikolas Rose (1993) "Governing Economic Life" in Foucault's New Domains pp. 75-105. (reader)

Case Studies

week 10 4/13, 4/15 Nettelton, Sarah (1992) Power, Pain and Dentistry (COOP/reserve) week 11 4/20, 4/22 Margolin, Leslie (1997) Under the Cover of Kindness (COOP/reserve)

Transformations in Professional Power

week 12 4/27, 4/29 Chambliss, Dan (1996) Beyond Caring (COOP/reserve) week 13 5/4, 5/6 the transformations of the professions Slaughter, Sheila and Larry, Leslie (1997) Academic Capitalism: Politics, Policies and the Entrepreneurial University (COOP/reserve)