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Journal articles on the topic "Sociology of Professions"
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Abel, Richard L. "Comparative Sociology of Legal Professions: An Exploratory Essay." American Bar Foundation Research Journal 10, no. 1 (1985): 5–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-4469.1985.tb00496.x.
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The author surveys and compares the legal professions of 15 nations, including both civil law and common law countries. The essay is organized around the ways that legal professionals control their markets—first by controlling “production of producers” or who and how many enter the profession (with formal education or apprenticeship requirements, examinations, access to entry-level positions). Legal professionals also control “production by producers”—both external competitors and lawyers themselves. This occurs, for example, through definition and defense of the professional monopoly, control of competition between licensed professionals, and creation of demand. The discussion takes place against the background of the legal profession's recent history—assessing changes in its composition (by race, age, gender), in lawyers’ practice settings, in the categories of work they perform, and in the income and status associated with these categories and with the profession in general.
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KUROVSKA, HANNA. "APPLICATION OF BASICS OF ACTOR-NETWORK APPROACH TO SOCIOLOGY OF PROFESSIONS." Sociology: Theory, Methods, Marketing, Stmm. 2022 (1) (2022): 196–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.15407/sociology2022.01.196.
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The article is devoted to theoretical approaches in the domain of sociology of professions and in particular the application of the concepts of actor-network theory in the study of the phenomenon of professions. Social transformations of the late XX — early XXI centuries, and, in particular, changes in the professional structure of society lead to criticism of the profession as a category of analysis and the existing analytical apparatus of "social sociology" in the study of professions and occupations. The article lists and considers the main paradigms and approaches to the study of the phenomenon of professions in the sociological perspective, the main angles and emphases within these approaches. The text presents the basic terms and ideas of the actor-network approach as one of the sociological perspectives, presents the basic terms and concepts of this area of sociological theorizing. An attempt was made to apply the concepts of actor-network approach to the profession as a socio-technical actor network and the formation of the profession (professionalization) as a process of translation and creation of the actor network, "monopolization of expertise" by the profession as an extended network. The article presents examples of consideration of the activities of professionals and their interactions in socio-technical systems in the research of the actor-network approach and considers the possibility of applying the principles of actor-network theory in the context of research professions and professional structure of society. An attempt is made to generalize the characteristics and activities of professionals carried out in the framework of research in the actor-network approach and find potential starting points for the study of professions in line with actor-network theory. Socio-technological nature of professions, the existence of the profession as a network of interactions and at the same time a professional as an actor in other networks, the length of networks of expert knowledge as the dominant way to explain phenomena, can be considered as general principles of professional activity.
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Taylor, Ann, Caragh Brosnan, and Gwendalyn Webb. "Equity in the Classroom and the Clinic: Understanding the Role of Sociology in Health Professional Education." Teaching Sociology 50, no. 2 (2021): 155–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0092055x211053374.
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Sociology teachers often encounter students studying to be future health professionals; sociology content can assist students to increase their understanding of patients, the social context of health and illness, and the social determinants of health. Engaging these students in sociological thinking can be challenging because of their diverse social locations and their identification with their future profession, which may emphasize clinical competence over broader reflective skills. In this conversation piece, we encourage critical reflection on the assumptions that underpin the teaching of sociology to aspiring health professionals. Through case studies of nursing, medicine, and speech-language pathology, we consider differences in the social locations of students and how sociological ideas are received by these professions. We argue that sociology teachers can assist health professions students to gain more from sociology by understanding these student cohorts and by reflexively considering power relations between teachers and students and between disciplines and professions.
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Münte, Peter, and Claudia Scheid. "Coping with Crises: A Neo-Classical View on Professions." Professions and Professionalism 7, no. 1 (2017): e1618. http://dx.doi.org/10.7577/pp.1618.
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The classical view in the sociology of professions is rooted in Parsons’ work. By using the term “profession,” this view tries to distinguish a class of occupations that serves a specific function in society. As is well known, such a functional view in the sociology of professions came under attack in the 1970s, when professionalization processes were increasingly analyzed in terms of interests and power. In this article, we have pointed out the theoretical and empirical relevance of a line of thought that emerged in the 1980s in the German-speaking academic world. It has revitalized a functional approach based on research into the interaction between professionals and their clients. The general idea that has emerged is that research into the microstructures of professional action could reveal a societal function that would explain the particular institutional features ascribed to professions.
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Abramov, Roman. "Sociology of Professions." Journal of Economic Sociology 4, no. 3 (2003): 159–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.17323/1726-3247-2003-3-159-167.
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Pescosolido, Bernice A. "The Sociology of the Professions and the Profession of Sociology: Professional Responsibility, Teaching, and Graduate Training." Teaching Sociology 19, no. 3 (1991): 351. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1318201.
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Sainsaulieu, Ivan. "Il coinvolgimento del sociologo nel suo oggetto: il caso del lavoro sociale, sanitario e di cura." SALUTE E SOCIETÀ, no. 3 (October 2009): 133–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/ses2009-su3010.
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- Sociologist's role inside social and health professions is strictly connected to his/her sociological commitment or intervention. The dilemma is, as many have highlighted, the integration and the distance between humanist empathy and axiological neutrality. The aim of this article is to compare the sociologist's involvement and the specificity of its object, verifying if that commitment affects the social configuration of its object.Key words: professional, involvement, social work, care work, sociology of work, neutrality.Parole chiave: professione, coinvolgimento, lavoro sociale, lavoro di cura, sociologia del lavoro, neutralitÀ.
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Kuiper, Marlot. "Connective Routines: How Medical Professionals Work with Safety Checklists." Professions and Professionalism 8, no. 1 (2018): e2251. http://dx.doi.org/10.7577/pp.2251.
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New standards like checklists are introduced to establish so-called “connective professionalism,” but it is difficult to work with checklists in daily circumstances. Professionals might comply with standards, but they might also neglect or resist them. By linking the sociology of professions to routine theory, we develop a relational perspective on working with standards, which is sensitive to the actual usage of standards, not so much “by” but “in-between” professionals. We analysed whether and how checklists are part of daily professional routines. Our ethnographic data show that medical professionals pragmatically cope with checklists. They “tick boxes,” but also use standards to improve case treatment, depending on the nature of cases, time pressure, and team composition. Connections between professionals not so much result from standards, but are a prerequisite for using standards. Professionals themselves rather than checklists establish collaboration, but checklists might be important devices for using “connective potential.”Various exogenous developments force professions to organize collaboration. New standards, like checklists, are introduced to reconfigure work and organize so-called ‘connective professionalism’. Despite serious efforts, it has proven difficult to incorporate these standards in daily practice. Different perspectives on the reconfiguration of professional work explain noncompliance. While implementation science employs a solely instrumental perspective, Sociology of Professions literature employs a broader social perspective mostly focusing on maintaining professional power. By combining Sociology of Professions and Routine Theory, this paper provides an analytical perspective that embraces possibilities for change of routines. A critical case in surgical care is used to empirically show how a checklist (re)creates professional routines. Our ethnographic data show that rather than the result of active professional resistance, differences between checklists and routines emerge from pragmatic coping with checklists amidst high-paced circumstances. Though deviating from the formal rule, these might be meaningful action patterns.
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Correia, Tiago. "An open-system approach to medical professionalism: a controversy within the sociology of professions." Interface - Comunicação, Saúde, Educação 15, no. 38 (2011): 779–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s1414-32832011000300013.
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This article focuses on a specific debate within theories of professions. Despite different trends, there has been difficulty in theorizing some dimensions of the dominant perspectives because of predominant institutional attention. The aim here was to reinforce the debate with complementary conceptualization of professionalism and, consequently, to foster new understandings of professional relationships. The argument lies in shifting the analytical level from the professions to professionals, as a basic step in conceptualizing individual action within professional contexts. This concern becomes increasingly important as the professional discretion structurally held by individuals becomes greater, since the ability to choose leads more explicitly to internal differentiation of professions. Systemic influence is felt given that social structures are intrinsically involved in actions, which represent exteriorizations of individually internalized processes. Consequently, it becomes necessary to consider the reasons for behaviors and the meanings individually conferred on professional dimensions.
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Davies, Celia. "The Sociology of Professions and the Profession of Gender." Sociology 30, no. 4 (1996): 661–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038038596030004003.
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Macdonald, Keith M. "The sociology of the professions and other occupations." Thesis, University of Surrey, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.257157.
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Magdalenić, Sanja. "Gendering the sociology profession : Sweden, Britain and the US." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-135.
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The dissertation explores the relationship between gender and professions with a historical sociological analysis of the sociology profession in Sweden, Britain and the US. The theoretical framework draws upon three conceptual terrains: professions, organizations and gender. A variety of sources are utilized, such as published and unpublished material, interviews, available statistics, auto/biographies and archival material. The aim of the dissertation is twofold. First, it seeks to add to theorizing about the relationship between gender and professions by exploring the ways in which the emergence, organization of and knowledge production in an academic profession interrelates with gender. Second, the dissertation considers how gender is interrelated with the historical development of sociology as a profession. A revised concept of the “professional project” - which involves historically specific strategies of occupational closure - is used as an analytical tool to examine gendered processes of exclusion and demarcation that occurred in the three national histories of sociology. The dissertation considers three dimensions that are central to that framework of analysis - professional associations, academic departments and sociological canon – to explore how the restructuring of gender relations varied in different organizational spheres and over time. Although both women and men were involved in the sociological movement that preceded the emergence of the sociology profession, men came to dominate the institutional arenas such as sociology departments and professional associations. The conception of sociology as a field excluded the previous work of women, and some men, whose work did not fit the new agenda of objective science. Despite the fact that sociology as a profession institutionalised in different periods in Sweden, Britain and the US, until the late 1960s women were largely absent from higher posts in professional associations, sociology departments and the sociological canon. Also in all three sociology fields, there were social movements and women’s professional organizations that sought to bring women into the sociology profession and to put gender research on sociological agenda. Of the three arenas linked to the professional project, i. e. professional associations, academic departments and sociological canon, my analysis shows that women have made the greatest inroads in professional associations in terms of broadening the associations’ membership and representation as well as institutionalising gender caucuses and programs into the associations. Academic departments, where the production of future professionals and most knowledge takes place, have been slower to change. Finally, despite notable achievements in gendering sociological theory and research, gender has not yet become fully integrated into sociological canon.
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Collas, Thomas. "La pâte et le décor : considération et formes professionnelles dans le monde des pâtissiers." Thesis, Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015IEPP0029.
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La thèse décrit l’ensemble hétérogène et flou de produits et de situations de travail qu'embrasse le monde des pâtissiers en France de la fin des années 1970 au début des années 2010 à la lumière d'une question de sociologie : dans quelle mesure les marques de considération portées aux travailleurs et à leur travail participent-elles à stabiliser des formes professionnelles, qu'il s'agisse d’un groupe professionnel, de segments élitaires, de communautés de praticiens ou encore de trajectoires individuelles ? Les matériaux mobilisés dans les trois parties de la thèse sont issus d’un travail sur archives et d’une enquête ethnographique. Une base prosopographique de première main est exploitée à partir de méthodes d’analyse de séquences. Dans la première partie, les revendications de statut portées au nom du groupe des pâtissiers par plusieurs collectifs et les conventions esthétiques convoquées et explicitées dans ce cadre sont étudiées. Dans la deuxième partie, les rhétoriques d’excellence mises en œuvre sur trois arènes de définition du travail pâtissier (le système des concours pâtissiers, une association élitaire et les sélections critiques) sont comparées au regard des sanctions qu’elles sécrètent et des segments élitaires qu'elles concourent à stabiliser. La troisième partie est consacrée à la stabilisation de trajectoires individuelles sur les marchés du travail et sur les marchés boutiquiers, à l’appui notamment de ces marques de considération. Ce faisant, les modèles d’avantage cumulatif sont mis à l’épreuve. En filigrane, la conduite d’entreprise et les compétences décoratives apparaissent comme deux principes récurrents de considération du travail pâtissier<br>The thesis describes the heterogenous world of pâtissiers – in terms of products and work situations – in France from the late 1970’s to the early 2010’s in the light of a sociological question : to what extent do marks of consideration sent to workers and to their work contribute to stabilize professional forms, be it professional groups, professional segments (elitarian or not) or individual trajectories ? The three parts of the thesis are based on empirical research, interweaving archive and ethnographic materials. An original prosopographical database is exploited through sequence analysis. The first part of the thesis presents an analysis of competing jurisdictional claims describing a group of pâtissiers and explicitly aesthetic choices that these claims reveal. In a second part, three arenas of definition of pâtissier work (pâtissier competitions, an elitarian association and critics) are compared with regard to rhetorics of excellence they convey and the elitarian segments they contribute to stabilize. The third part looks at individual trajectories that are partly built on these marks of consideration. In so doing, the cumulative advantage models are discussed. The thesis shows that entrepreneurship and decoration skills are recurrent principles of consideration of pâtissier work
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Sekulovic, Adriana. "Profession : agent sportif : contribution à une théorie des modèles professionnels." Thesis, Paris 10, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA100023/document.
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Cette thèse appréhende les agents sportifs comme des acteurs évoluant dans un univers professionnel dynamique, complexe et multidimensionnel. Profession, métier et activités de travail, ces trois termes, souvent interchangeables, demeurent pourtant amphibologiques étant donnée leur extrême polysémie. C’est à partir de cette ambivalence que se construit l’objet d’étude, une profession atypique au statut inachevé, entre régulation et autonomie. Dans un premier temps, sous l’angle de la sociologie des professions, cette recherche s’attache à restituer et à éclairer la terminologie utilisée. Ce faisant, elle pose les prémices d’un modèle professionnel de l’agent sportif, marqué par des interventions réglementaires émanant des sphères politiques et sportives. Puis, nous proposons de réinterroger l’organisation et la régulation de la profession d’agent sportif, telles qu’imposées par les instances présumées compétentes en la matière. Nous opérons ensuite un changement de paradigme qui entraîne une modification de point de vue sur la profession car notre regard se déplace sur la pratique quotidienne des activités de travail de l’agent sportif. C’est dans l’interaction acyclique ou continue avec les groupes et les individus qu’il cotie que l’agent sportif acquiert et intègre les compétences nécessaires à la réalisation réussie de son projet professionnel. La carrière de l’agent sportif et l’orientation professionnelle donnée à son activité dépendent de l’authenticité de ses parcours antérieurs lesquels déterminent en partie les choix et les stratégies que celui-ci développe dans la construction de sa carrière. Les analyses des trajectoires biographiques et des tâches professionnelles d’agents sportifs présentés dans cette thèse permettent de comprendre comment se développe et évolue l’identité professionnelle au cours de la carrière. La profession d’agent sportif est abordée par la manière dont les agents sportifs parlent de leur métier au quotidien et reconstituent les étapes de leur engagement dans les activités d’intermédiation<br>This thesis views sports agents as actors evolving in a dynamic, complex and multi-dimensional work environment. Profession, occupation and work, these three terms, although often used interchangeably yet, remain amphibological given their extreme polysemy. The object of this research arises in light of that ambivalence as a study of an atypical profession with an uncompleted status, teetering between regulation and autonomy. The first section of the study aims to help specify and clarify the terminology being used. In doing so, using the literature from the sociology of professions, it provides a starting point for a suitable theoretical framework that could be applied to the profession of sports agent or to the (sports) agency practice, as a whole. The occupational model of sports agent is framed in such a way that the professional self-regulation is restricted by Sports governing Bodies and State regulatory interventions. Therefore we propose to re-examine the organization and regulation of the sports agents’ activities. The findings indicate significant differences between the regulations applicable to sports agents. The inefficiency of the current regulations whether they are enacted by national sports federations, international sports federation or by the State is closely related to the internal professional dynamics that these regulations disturb. The thesis examines therefore the tasks of sports agents, the individuals that carry them out, and the variable and inconstant connections that tie one to the other. In this respect, as a means of a more accurate conceptualization of its object of analysis, this research describes sports agents’ activities quantitatively and qualitatively, exploring various dimensions and aspects such as the foundations of the profession, the social role of sports agents, the different typologies of sports agents and the occupational tasks accomplished by each. It also highlights the international scope of sports agents’ activities
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Yazdanpanah, Héléna. "Les avocats d'entreprises et leurs clients : pratiques collectives et conseils individuels en droit social." Thesis, Université de Lille (2018-2021), 2021. http://www.theses.fr/2021LILUD021.
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En France, la construction et la rapide complexification du droit du travail, ainsi que la demande de services juridiques de la part des entreprises, ont entraîné l’émergence d’un marché du conseil juridique. Pour les entreprises, le droit est à la fois un cadre d’action et un outil dans l’exercice du pouvoir patronal. Au croisement de la sociologie des professions juridiques et de la sociologie du droit et de la justice, cette thèse a pour objectif d’étudier les pratiques professionnelles des avocats d’entreprises spécialisés en droit du travail qui combinent des activités de conseil juridique et de défense de leurs clients dans le cadre des procédures prud’homales. Elle s’intéresse à l’organisation de leur travail au sein de leurs cabinets et montre comment les avocats développent des savoirs juridiques et mettent en place collectivement des pratiques de travail qui leur permettent de défendre les intérêts de leurs clients. La thèse revient dans un premier temps sur les contextes de travail des avocats et sur leur socialisation professionnelle, qui donne lieu à des conceptions communes du rôle professionnel et du droit du travail, orienté dans leur pratique vers la gestion des ressources humaines. Dans un second temps, la thèse analyse le travail de mise aux normes des pratiques patronales, tel qu'il se déroule dans le cadre d'une relation de service où les avocats disposent d'une autorité plus ou moins importante selon la durée et l'implication des deux parties dans la relation, et les ressources juridiques dont disposent les clients. Enfin, la thèse montre comment les avocats apprennent à leurs clients à faire usage stratégiquement du droit du travail. Les matériaux empiriques qui viennent appuyer cette réflexion se composent d'entretiens réalisés avec des avocats au sein de trois barreaux. Par ailleurs, nous avons effectué des observations de rendez-vous (en face à face ou téléphoniques) entre des avocats et leurs clients au sein d'un cabinet d'avocats. A cela s'ajoutent des observations effectuées aux congrès et réunions de deux associations professionnelles<br>In France, the construction of employment law and its rapid increase of complexity, as well as the increase in demand for specialized legal services, lead lawyers to develop an expertise in this field. Law can be both a frame of reference and a ressource for companies. At the crossroads of the sociology of the legal professions and the sociology of law, this dissertation examines the practice of business lawyers who specialize in employment law and combine an advisory and litigation activity. We study the organization of law firms and show how lawyers collectively work to develop their professional practices and defend their clients’ interests. We first look at the professional contexts of lawyers and their professional socialization, which leads to common conceptions of their professional role and of employment law, oriented in their practice towards management. Secondly, we show how lawyers bring employer practices into line with legal standards. Lawyers’ interventions take place within the framework of a service relationship in which the lawyers have more or less authority depending on the duration and involvement of the two parties in the relationship and the legal resources available to the clients. Finally, we show how lawyers teach their clients to use employment law strategically. The empirical material that supports this reflection consists of interviews with lawyers in three bars. In addition, we conducted observations of meetings (face-to-face or by telephone) between lawyers and their clients in one law firm. Finally, we observed the meetings and conventions of two associations of lawyers who develop expertise in employment law for companies
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Coatesworth, Megan Gebhardt. "Women staying in STEM professions long-term| A motivation model." Thesis, The University of the Rockies, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3686149.
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<p> This qualitative grounded theory study sought to identify what motivates women to stay in or return to science, technology, engineering, and math professions (STEM) long-term, leading to a motivation model. Twenty women, each having a minimum of 10 years of experience in STEM professions, participated in the study. Four of the 20 participants had a career path where they left the STEM workplace for more than 26 weeks and then returned. The results of this study suggested that there may be five themes related to motivating factors for women who stay in STEM professions long term: a) interest in STEM is the constant as individual needs and priorities change, b) direct manager influence on development is critical c) performance-based workplace policies and culture are continuously sought, d) moving towards a no-bias workplace remains important, and e) the career growth path at life's crossroads remains a challenge. While this study's results suggested that some bias does still exist in the STEM workplace, as previously documented. The results suggested that an equitable workplace does not yet exist regarding career growth opportunities. As career growth is one of the motivating factors for women in STEM and environments for career growth opportunities vary in the workplace, this study's results also suggested that career growth opportunities continue to be a barrier for women in STEM.</p>
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Aufort, Adrien. "Homo photographicus : sociogenèse du métier de photographe en France." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Sorbonne université, 2024. http://www.theses.fr/2024SORUL023.
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Cette thèse se propose d'étudier le métier de photographe par le prisme de la sociologie et de l'histoire.Un portrait actuel (2018-2023) des professionnels est dressé par l'analyse de 30 entretiens et de 258 réponses à un questionnaire diffusé en ligne. L'éducation, la sociabilité, la technique, les préférences esthétiques ainsi que les habitudes culturelles sont précisément décrites. À la manière d'une expérience de réplicabilité, certains résultats de cette double enquête renforcent les conclusions de travaux antérieurs, notamment dans les déterminants socio-démographiques de l'entrée dans la profession. D'autres sont plus originaux, tels que la mise en lumière de l'influence de l'ancienneté sur les revenus, ou encore celle de l'implantation géographique sur l'obtention d'un prix. La réussite professionnelle est également traitée. Le succès est compris comme l'adéquation entre un « dispositif élargi », articulation entre l'Homme et la machine, et les représentations sociales. Ces dernières sont le fruit d'un travail des photographes, tant sur les images photographiques qu'ils produisent que sur l'image de soi qu'ils cultivent. Une correspondance historique (1910-1952) a également pu être établie grâce à l'analyse de 778 numéros de la revue Le Photographe. Des balbutiements corporatifs jusqu'aux acquis juridiques, politiques et institutionnels, la profession est tributaire d'une riche histoire. Entendu comme entreprise individuelle et collective, le métier de photographe semble continuellement en crise. Il exige des professionnels non seulement une négociation permanente avec les ruptures technologiques mais aussi avec les autres usagers de la photographie<br>This doctorate thesis aims to study the profession of photographer through the lens of sociology and history.A current portrait (2018-2023) of the professionals is drawn up by analyzing 30 interviews and 258 responses to an online questionnaire. Education, sociability, technique, aesthetic preferences and cultural habits are described in detail. In the manner of a replicability experiment, some of the results of this double survey reinforce the conclusions of previous work, particularly with regard to the socio-demographic determinants of entry into the profession. Others are more original, such as the influence of seniority on income, or the influence of geographical location on winning a prize. Professional success is also addressed and understood as the match between an ‘extended setup', a link between man and machine, and social representations. The latter are the fruit of the photographers' work, both on the photographic images they produce and on the self-image they cultivate. A historical correspondence (1910-1952) was also established by analyzing 778 issues of the magazine Le Photographe. From its beginnings as a corporate body to its legal, political and institutional achievements, the profession has a rich history. Understood as an individual and collective enterprise, the profession of photographer is seemingly in a constant state of crisis. It requires not only a constant negotiation with technological changes as they arise, but also with other users of the photographic medium
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Miller, Bradley Dean 1959. "Literacy in contexts of transnational professional practice: The case of the globalized professions in the United States." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/282805.
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Over the last fifty years, literacy and its study have moved considerably beyond the ability solely to read and write; it may be now viewed as a centrally mediating factor to interpret the signs engraved into the texts of our experiences and the fulcrum to participate more fully in our public and our private worlds. Among these realms of literacy, the world of work has borne witness to incredible changes in the form and content of professional occupation. With growth in global political, economic and technological interdependency, transfer of knowledge and professionals across borders accelerates and becomes more prevalent. Addressing the professional domains of literacy practices, this is a descriptive study designed to investigate how professionals experience and use literacy, be they literacy skills (technical knowledge or expertise) or literate behaviors (practical knowledge or know how) in transnational contexts of practice. Using an ethnographic methodology and multimethod strategies (informant interviews with professional stakeholders from the regulated, globalized professions in the United States in construction and design, business and finance, allied health, and technology and engineering; published professional development international training program curriculum review; and focus group sessions with accreditation, licensing and certifying body officials addressing the need for guidelines for professionals in transnational practice) data gathering and analysis are focused on input from quality assurance authorities, faculty from professional schools, multinational corporate human resource executives, and the practitioners themselves. In the broadest sense, the study's purpose is to map the relevant dimensions of literacy in transnational professional practice in the regulatory, cultural, linguistic, technological and locational realities of another country. The results of this study indicate that across the affinity groupings mentioned above, professionals in transnational contexts of practice operate within at least five categories of literacy engagement: resources, people, information, systems, technology, with literacy skills and literate behaviors being directed principally toward working with people and within systems overseas. An array of literacy insights are also provided, drawn from thematic congruencies across the three data sets.
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Legrand, Julia. "L’incertitude psychiatrique : une sociologie de la prescription de psychotropes en psychiatrie publique." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 8, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020PA080021.
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Les psychotropes sont souvent présentés par deux prismes antinomiques : entre « panacée » libératrice d’un côté et, de l’autre, « camisoles chimiques » contraignantes. Ce clivage caractérise aussi les représentations de l’activité de prescription des psychiatres, les spécialistes des psychotropes. La question pharmacologique est particulièrement structurante dans le champ psychiatrique ; elle est notamment de plus en plus centrale dans l’activité des équipes soignantes des hôpitaux psychiatriques. La question de la prescription médicamenteuse est donc inévitablement à explorer pour comprendre la psychiatrie publique contemporaine. À la frontière entre sociologie des sciences, de la santé, du travail et des professions, la thèse propose précisément d’éclairer la manière dont les psychiatres prescrivent, et notamment de comprendre quelles opérations de classements des troubles et des patients président au choix d’une substance. Le cœur de cette recherche repose sur le paradoxe suivant : la psychiatrie comme profession se légitime publiquement par une image axée sur sa capacité d’expertise et sur la force d’innovation de ses traitements médicamenteux. Comment se fait-il alors que le cœur de métier des psychiatres de secteur public, la prescription de psychotropes, soit si peu valorisé par ses membres ? Sur la base d’entretiens avec les représentants de la profession, d’une indexation de sites web des principaux segments de la psychiatrie et d’une enquête ethnographique comparée de deux établissements publics, la thèse aborde les enjeux de la prescription de médicaments de l’échelle la plus macrosociologique au niveau le plus fin d’analyse, de prescrire comme outil de valorisation professionnelle, à l’activité collective des équipes soignantes, jusqu’à la pratique dans les consultations psychiatres-patients<br>Psychotropic drugs are often looked at threw two opposite prisms: as a liberating "panacea" on the one hand, and as a restrictive "chemical straitjacket" on the other. This cleavage also characterizes the representation of psychiatrists’ prescribing activities, as psychotropic drug specialists. The pharmacological issue is particularly structuring in the psychiatric field, especially as it is increasingly central in the activity of psychiatric hospitals. Exploring the issue of drug prescription is therefore necessary in order to understand contemporary public psychiatry. At the border between science studies and the sociology of health, work and professions, this thesis aims to shed light on psychiatric prescription methods, and in particular to understand which disorder ant patient classification processes govern substance choices. The core of this research is based on the following paradox: psychiatry as a profession is publicly legitimized by an image based on its expertise and the innovative power of its drug treatments. Why, then, seems psychotropic drug prescription so under-valued by some of its members? Based on interviews of representatives of the profession, a website indexing of the main segments of psychiatry and a comparative ethnographic survey of two public institutions, this thesis addresses the issue of drug prescription from the most macro-sociological scale to the finest level of analysis - from prescribing as a professional valorization tool to prescriptions during psychiatrist-patient sessions
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Pasian, Pamela. "La doula in Italia Nascita, formazione e legittimazione di una professione." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3424796.
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The goal of this research is to analyze the arising of the doula profession in Italy.
Doulas are professional who offer emotional, informational and practical support to women and their families, during pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum.
The profile is born in U.S.A in the seventies and in Italy it began to develop at the end of nineties. The first Doula Training started in 2007. Nowadays doulas trained are six hundred and about half of them practice as professionals. Doula profession is ruled by law num.4/2013 “Disposizioni in materia di professioni non organizzate”.
To understand how doulas are defining their space in the system of profession, the research will investigate doulas profession through the study of their practices, their representations and the processes developed to obtain cultural and social jurisdiction.
In typical Chicago tradition and following in particular the work of Andrew Abbott (1988), the research will adopt the concept of profession. The history of a profession is influenced by the broader history of the system of professions. Doulas are involved in acquiring control of an area of work which is related to other professions in maternity care. Midwives constitute the professional group which is most involved in this process and, through their representative body, they are developing strong opposition to the arising of doula profession.
The work is based on interviews and ethnography. The research shows the results of the analysis of 32 biographical interviews conducted with doulas, 14 with midwives and 4 privileged actors. Interviews share the same methodological basis, which match the ethno sociological approach (Bertaux 1999) with the dialogic approach (La Mendola 2009). The ethnographic work took place during trainings and meetings for doulas, where the researcher participated as a doula. Ethnographic notes (Gobo 2001, Corsaro 1985) are interwoven with autoethnografic ones (Ellis 1995, Ellis et al. 2011).
Through the study of doula profession the work tries to understand the birth of a new profession in an ecological view, analyzing internal and external competition to the definition of cultural and social jurisdiction. Moreover this work aims at contributing to the study of transformative processes that affected professions in Italy.<br>La ricerca ha l’obiettivo di indagare la professione della doula in Italia.
La doula si configura come una professionista che offre supporto informativo, emotivo e pratico alla donna e alla famiglia, dalla gravidanza sino al primo anno di vita del bambino.
Il profilo, nato negli Stati Uniti negli anni Settanta, ha iniziato a svilupparsi nel nostro Paese a partire dagli ultimi anni del Novecento e nel 2007 è stata fondata la prima scuola delle doule. Attualmente le doule formate dai differenti percorsi sono circa seicento ed è possibile stimare, secondo quando riferito dalle presidenti delle principali associazioni di doule, che a svolgere l’attività siano circa trecento professioniste. La figura della doula è disciplinata dalla legge numero 4 del 2013 “Disposizioni in materia di professioni non organizzate”.
La ricerca si propone di indagare la professione della doula attraverso lo studio delle pratiche, delle rappresentazioni e dei processi di riconoscimento e legittimazione sviluppati dalle professioniste, al fine di comprendere il modo in cui la figura sta definendo il proprio spazio all’interno del sistema delle professioni.
Dalla tradizione sociologica della Scuola di Chicago, ed in particolare dalla teorizzazione sviluppata da Andrew Abbott (1988), si adotterà come riferimento il concetto di professione. All’interno di un’ecologia ciò che accade ad un elemento influisce necessariamente su tutti gli altri elementi del sistema. In questo senso, l’emergere della figura della doula, impegnata ad acquisire il controllo di una determinata area di lavoro, coinvolge le altre professioni che operano nell’area materno-infantile. In particolare, nell’esperienza delle doule, l’ecologia più prossima riguarda il gruppo professionale delle ostetriche, il quale, attraverso l’organo di rappresentanza, la Federazione Nazionale dei Collegi delle Ostetriche, ha manifestato opposizione alla figura sin dai suoi esordi. Lo studio ha quindi coinvolto anche il gruppo professionale delle ostetriche.
La ricerca si basa sull’analisi di interviste ed etnografia. Sono state realizzate trentadue interviste a doule, quattordici ad ostetriche e quattro ad attori privilegiati. Le interviste sono state caratterizzate da una stessa impostazione metodologica, frutto della fusione tra il modello etnosociologico (Bertaux 1999) e l’approccio dialogico (La Mendola 2009). L’etnografica ha avuto luogo in eventi formativi e sociali rivolti a doule nei quali ho preso parte in quanto doula e i diari alternano note osservative, metodologiche, teoriche ed emotive (Gobo 2001, Corsaro 1985) e passaggi autoetnografici (Ellis 1995, Ellis et al. 2011).
Attraverso lo studio della professione della doula l’elaborato si propone di comprendere la nascita di una professione innovativa, da un punto di vista ecologico, analizzando quindi le competizioni interne ed esterne per la definizione della jurisdiction culturale e sociale. Inoltre, il lavoro ambisce a contribuire all’indagine dei processi di trasformazione che stanno interessando le professioni in Italia.
Books on the topic "Sociology of Professions"
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Sociologie des professions: The sociology of professions. Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 1988.
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Pavalko, Ronald M. Sociology of occupations and professions. 2nd ed. F.E. Peacock, 1988.
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Pamela, Abbott, and Meerabeau Liz, eds. The sociology of the caring professions. 2nd ed. UCL Press, 1998.
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Pamela, Abbott, and Wallace Claire, eds. The Sociology of the caring professions. Falmer Press, 1990.
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1930-, Lal Sheo Kumar, University of Jodhpur. Dept. of Sociology., and National Seminar on the Sociology of the Professions (1984 : Jodhpur, India), eds. Readings in the sociology of the professions. Gian Pub. House, 1988.
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Monteiro, A. Reis. "Sociology of the Professions." In The Teaching Profession. Springer International Publishing, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12130-7_4.
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Sidhu, Jasvinder, Soma Pillay, and Mahesh Joshi. "Sociology of the Professions and Accounting." In Understanding the Sociology of the Accounting Profession. Springer Nature Singapore, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-1572-9_2.
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Collyer, Fran. "Disciplines, Professions and Specialities." In Mapping the Sociology of Health and Medicine. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137009319_4.
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Sciulli, David. "Democracy, Professions and Societal Constitutionalism." In Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research. Springer New York, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-68930-2_5.
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Larson, Magali Sarfatti. "Professions as Disciplinary Cultures." In The Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Culture. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470996744.ch21.
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Veloso, Luísa, João Freire, Luísa Oliveira, and Noémia Lopes. "Deontological and Methodological Research Questions in Portuguese Sociology of Professions." In The Trend towards the European Deregulation of Professions and Its Impact on Portugal under Crisis. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137352750_5.
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Ressler, Stephen J. "Sociology of Professions: Application to the Civil Engineering “Raise the Bar” Initiative." In Raise the Bar. American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/9780784413173.ch02.
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Greer, Scott. "Professions, Data, and Political Will: From the Pandemic Toward a Political Science with Public Health." In Integrating Science and Politics for Public Health. Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98985-9_3.
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AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic promised to teach us many things. One of the things it can help to teach us is about ways to do political science with public health. A political science with public health can work best if informed by a broad social-scientific understanding of both fields. This chapter, therefore, takes its inspiration from not just political science but also sociology and Science and Technology Studies, a field which focuses on the social construction of facts and their flow through society. The chapter focuses on three issues that seem to be particular causes of disciplinary misunderstanding and potentially fruitful research. The first is the professional authority of public health as a profession, including the extent to which it has a clear domain of expertise that others in government and academia respect. The second is the politics of data. Data are endogenous to the political process because the collection and coding of data of any kind are political decisions. The experience showed the potential value of viewing statistics as a dependent variable. The third is of the most contested concepts that can be found at the border of public health and political science: political will.
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Harding, Geoffrey, Sarah Nettleton, and Kevin Taylor. "Is Pharmacy a Profession?" In Sociology for Pharmacists. Macmillan Education UK, 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21149-4_7.
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Scott, Wilbur J., Karin Modesto De Angelis, and David R. Segal. "The Military as a Bureaucracy and as a Profession." In Military Sociology. Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003282549-4.
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Vatin, François. "Quand l’intégrité du système se fissure : intégrité ou heuristique scientifiques ? Un parcours en sciences sociales." In 2ème Colloque International de Recherche et Action sur l’Intégrité Académique. « Les nouvelles frontières de l’intégrité ». IRAFPA, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.56240/cmb9912.
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This article examines the institutions and procedures that have been implemented over the past several decades to « professionalize » academic activity and thus ensure its « integrity ». Based on a brief attempt to characterize this profession in the spirit of the sociology of professions, it asks whether these devices have not ultimately aggravated the problems they were intended to address. In an exercise in self-history, the author draws on his forty-year career in the French university. Since it is not possible to deal with all the issues at stake in this article, he focuses on the generalized institutionalization of research laboratories in French universities.
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Gerasimova, Alexandra. "DEVELOPMENT OF AN ALTRUISTIC ORIENTATION OF THE PERSONALITY OF STUDENTS AND EXPERTS OF HELPING PROFESSIONS." In SGEM 2014 Scientific Conference on PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY, SOCIOLOGY AND HEALTHCARE, EDUCATION. Stef92 Technology, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.5593/sgemsocial2014/b11/s1.016.
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Rughinis, Cosima, and Bogdana Huma. "MASSIVE MULTIPLAYER ONLINE ADVICE: USING FORUMS TO TEACH EMPATHY IN SOCIAL PROFESSIONS." In eLSE 2014. Editura Universitatii Nationale de Aparare "Carol I", 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.12753/2066-026x-14-052.
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In this paper we argue that online forums are a valuable resource for teaching and learning specific analytical skills required for empathetic understanding, especially for students in the social professions - such as sociology, social work, psychology, etc. Empathy refers to the capacity of understanding the situation of another person - that is, understanding his or her definition of the situation and the symbolic universe in which elements of the situation become meaningful and shape actions. This capacity is cultivated through daily social interaction, and it can also be trained in educational settings. Empathy can be improved through analytical skills, consisting in the capacity to identify core symbolic elements of a persons' situation and then to reconstruct her perspective. A key resource for cultivating the analytical skills required for empathetic understanding consists in the diversity of perspectives of multiple persons engaged in interaction on a common topic. Online forums for personal advice, such as Yahoo! Answers, offer this precious learning resource: they combine a strong diversity of perspectives with benefits of short, easy-to-read texts. Online forums present three additional learning advantages. As opposed to live interaction, which unfolds at a high speed, making conversationalists' moves invisible to an untrained eye, written discourses can be examined in detail, at one's own pace, thus being an excellent didactic material. Second, when posting on online forums, individuals often attempt to construct intelligible stories. Last, most discussion in forums have an adversarial construction, facilitating the observation of their rhetorical construction. In this paper we present a method for engaging students in online forums for personal advice with a structured learning agenda, in order to cultivate their abilities to make sense of the specific perspective of the person asking for advice, in light of variability in others' answers. Students learn to observe discursive alternatives in the construction of a problematic situation - such as marriage crises, health conditions, parental dilemmas. Students are also encouraged to formulate empathetic answers to persons who are asking for advice, and to reflect on the work of discursive articulation of multiple subjective worlds. We conclude by observing that online forums can be conceptualized as massive multiplayer online advice games - engaging anonymous participants in a communicative situation with specific stakes which are influenced both by the technological constitution of the forum (for example, rules for gaining higher status as a forum member) and by the anonymized, mediated, still highly personal social interaction.
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Vakulenko, Svitlana. "The role of the emotional component in the professional activity of social work specialists during the war." In Sociology – Social Work and Social Welfare: Regulation of Social Problems. Видавець ФОП Марченко Т.В., 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.23939/sosrsw2023.159.
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Background: The majority of emotional experiences arise in response to the satisfaction or dissatisfaction of personal needs. Hence, one cannot ignore the person’s emotional experiences in the study of his/her social behavior. Models for explaining social actions and social processes that ignore the actors’ emotions cannot be considered relevant. Purpose: To investigate, on the basis of concepts of «emotion work» and «emotional labor» by A.R. Hochschild the role of the emotional component in the professional activity of social work specialists during the war. since social work is based on deep action (according to A.R. Hochschild’s classification) and the presence of certain personal qualities, which is manifested in some features inherent in this profession. Methods: The theoretical method of research was to analyze the documents used to study the works of scientists who researched the social nature of emotions: on the one hand, they are the results of social processes that require sociological explanation; on the other, they function as causes of the social processes, necessary to explain the very principles of social behavior. Conclusion: In the social workers professional activities, emotions are important. Due to the activities specifics, professionals are often required to imitate certain emotions (perform emotion work). At the same time, social work involves the implementation of including emotional labor, which is based on deep action (according to the classification of A.R. Hochschild) and the presence of certain personal qualities associated with the profession characteristics. Keywords: social work, social work specialists, professional activity, emotional labour, emotional work.
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Zintsova, Anastasia. "SOCIAL-PROFESSIONAL SAFETY OF YOUNG PROFESSIONALS IN THE COURSE OF THEIR PROFESSIONAL ADAPTATION." In SGEM 2014 Scientific SubConference on PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY, SOCIOLOGY AND HEALTHCARE, EDUCATION. Stef92 Technology, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.5593/sgemsocial2014/b12/s2.002.
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Ćorić, Dragana. "Stvaranje etičkih kodeksa." In XVI Majsko savetovanje. University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Law, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.46793/upk20.911c.
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Creating legal acts is sometimes a time-consuming and painstaking process. To approach this process, the norm-maker is required to have a good knowledge of law, as well as other social sciences, such as politics, economics, sociology, and linguistics. Knowledge of psychology is also often important, because of the psychological effects that a norm might have on on the addressee - whether it will motivate them to respect it or to disobedience. The process of creating a legal act is therefore a sum of different action steps, starting with numerous preparatory actions and even acquiring new knowledge to write the act well, until the final linguistic formulation. As a special type of acts, the creation of which is given special attention , there are the codes of ethics of various professionals, of professional associations as well as of employees in state bodies and other institutions and organizations Their specificity rests on the prior special recognition and formulation of values that this group of professionals should follow. Compliance with these rules should come not only from the fear of applying a sanction, but from recognizing those values as their own, as it is the only way for a profession to be pursued. In our work we are dealing with the process of creating these codes, defining values and achieving the consent of professionals that these values are their way and way of performing their profession.
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Nicoglu, Corina. "MODERN TECHNIQUES OF CONTINUOUS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN PUBLIC LIBRARIES." In eLSE 2018. Carol I National Defence University Publishing House, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.12753/2066-026x-18-271.
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The Informational Society has imposed a set of rules on the professionals from various domains but, for the information based librarians, even a broader set of rules applies. Together, the diversification of public services, the hybrid library and the digital literacy contribute to forming new ways of cultivating professional development. Library professionals now have a vast area of attributes to fulfill, having to combine both the traditional librarian tasks with the use of the latest technologies and equipment regarding IT&C, project management, trainings, sociology or STEM. Continuous professional training is one of the attributes of an efficient management. Even since hiring, it is important to correctly identify an employee's skills, evaluate them regularly and add new ones through professional training. Only highly trained librarians can deliver quality services. In this context, knowledge management has a fundamental role. With its help we can create new collective tools for professional development. On the other hand, knowledge is based on learning, therefore, this articles will present the methods through which those concepts can be applied in the Romanian libraries by the use of modern technologies and high quality management of human resources. In this articles, in order to train good specialists in the Information Science, we propose modern e-learning and e-evaluation models and, based on their intrinsic advantages, we have them recommended to our associations and to the Library and Information Science education forms, but also to the library managers. Starting from the existing realities in a library, a plan will be presented which will be based on the identification of the skills and abilities necessary for the modern librarian profession. Certainly, implementing these methods would lead to a greater efficiency in training with much lower costs for institutions.
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Muzakar, Abdullah, Nurdin Ibrahim, and Priyono Priyono. "Critical Thinking Ability and Students’ Learning Achievement of Sociology Education in the Industrial Sociology Courses." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Educational Sciences and Teacher Profession (ICETeP 2018). Atlantis Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/icetep-18.2019.66.
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Horak, Hana. "THE RECOGNITION OF PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS AND PROBLEM OF NECESSARY LANGUAGE SKILLS IN HEALTHCARE PROFESSION." In SGEM 2014 Scientific SubConference on PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY, SOCIOLOGY AND HEALTHCARE, EDUCATION. Stef92 Technology, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.5593/sgemsocial2014/b12/s2.137.
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Beschasnaya, Albina Ahmetovna. "Performative Education: Do Sociology Need Non-Humanitarian Specialties?" In 18th PCSF 2018 - Professional Сulture of the Specialist of the Future. Cognitive-Crcs, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2018.12.02.110.
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Mayfield, Colin. Higher Education in the Water Sector: A Global Overview. United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.53328/guxy9244.
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Higher education related to water is a critical component of capacity development necessary to support countries’ progress towards Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) overall, and towards the SDG6 water and sanitation goal in particular. Although the precise number is unknown, there are at least 28,000 higher education institutions in the world. The actual number is likely higher and constantly changing. Water education programmes are very diverse and complex and can include components of engineering, biology, chemistry, physics, hydrology, hydrogeology, ecology, geography, earth sciences, public health, sociology, law, and political sciences, to mention a few areas. In addition, various levels of qualifications are offered, ranging from certificate, diploma, baccalaureate, to the master’s and doctorate (or equivalent) levels. The percentage of universities offering programmes in ‘water’ ranges from 40% in the USA and Europe to 1% in subSaharan Africa. There are no specific data sets available for the extent or quality of teaching ‘water’ in universities. Consequently, insights on this have to be drawn or inferred from data sources on overall research and teaching excellence such as Scopus, the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities, the Times Higher Education, the Ranking Web of Universities, the Our World in Data website and the UN Statistics Division data. Using a combination of measures of research excellence in water resources and related topics, and overall rankings of university teaching excellence, universities with representation in both categories were identified. Very few universities are represented in both categories. Countries that have at least three universities in the list of the top 50 include USA, Australia, China, UK, Netherlands and Canada. There are universities that have excellent reputations for both teaching excellence and for excellent and diverse research activities in water-related topics. They are mainly in the USA, Europe, Australia and China. Other universities scored well on research in water resources but did not in teaching excellence. The approach proposed in this report has potential to guide the development of comprehensive programmes in water. No specific comparative data on the quality of teaching in water-related topics has been identified. This report further shows the variety of pathways which most water education programmes are associated with or built in – through science, technology and engineering post-secondary and professional education systems. The multitude of possible institutions and pathways to acquire a qualification in water means that a better ‘roadmap’ is needed to chart the programmes. A global database with details on programme curricula, qualifications offered, duration, prerequisites, cost, transfer opportunities and other programme parameters would be ideal for this purpose, showing country-level, regional and global search capabilities. Cooperation between institutions in preparing or presenting water programmes is currently rather limited. Regional consortia of institutions may facilitate cooperation. A similar process could be used for technical and vocational education and training, although a more local approach would be better since conditions, regulations and technologies vary between relatively small areas. Finally, this report examines various factors affecting the future availability of water professionals. This includes the availability of suitable education and training programmes, choices that students make to pursue different areas of study, employment prospects, increasing gender equity, costs of education, and students’ and graduates’ mobility, especially between developing and developed countries. This report aims to inform and open a conversation with educators and administrators in higher education especially those engaged in water education or preparing to enter that field. It will also benefit students intending to enter the water resources field, professionals seeking an overview of educational activities for continuing education on water and government officials and politicians responsible for educational activities