Continental sociology of professions today: Conceptual contributions

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The sociologist theories and concepts that revolve around cultural and social psychological variables and why they neglect invariant structural qualities are explored. It concludes by proposing schematically a structural and institutional turn in the study of professions that distinguishes professions from middle-class occupations and reveals the consequences that professions uniquely introduced into civil society.

Civil society

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Escaping without eliding an Atlantic divide, etymological and conceptual

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A writer thanks Professors Rolf Torstendahl and Maria Malatesta for their careful reading, commentary and criticism on his work related to study of the profession. In his opinion it does not matter structurally whether an architect or any other occupational practitioner works privately or in a bureaucratic setting and is indifferent to where any of these occupations are located geographically, or who employs them.

Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities, Sociology, Criticism and interpretation

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Performativity of risk and the boundaries of economic sociology

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Economic sociologists must treat economics as an endogenous part of its enquiries and see the way in which economic theory shapes the economy not to examine the meaning of economic theory. Economic sociology must redefine its boundaries if it needs to take the sociological and linguistic turn in social theory and focus on language seriously.

Economics, Industrial sociology, Economic theory

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