Professions in Civil Society and the State: Invariant Foundations and Consequences (International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology)

Professions are central to any political sociology of major associations, organizations and venues in civil society underpinning democracy; they are not a subset of livelihoods in a mundane sociology of work and occupations. Professions in Civil Society and the State is at once elegant and startling in its directness and the sheer scope of its implications for future comparative research and theory. Not since Talcott Parsons during the early 1970s has any sociologist (or political scientist) pursued this line of inquiry. Sciulli's theoretical approach differs fundamentally from Parsons'and rests on a breadth of historical and cross-national support that always eluded him. The sociology of professions has come full circle, leaving behind Parsons, his critics, and two generations of received wisdom. Professions in Civil Society and the State......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Introduction......Page 8 Section I: The Professions Literature Today......Page 24 1. Approaches and Debates from 1930s to Today......Page 26 2. The Situation on the Continent......Page 56 Section II: Professionalism Outside Historical and Contemporary Pools......Page 80 3. The Paris Visual Académie......Page 82 4. Corporate Governance and Delaware Courts......Page 120 5. Reflections, Analyses, Appraisals......Page 156 Section III: A Structural and Institutional Approach......Page 184 6. Professions and Structured Situations......Page 186 7. Independent Socio-Cultural Authority of Professionalism......Page 232 8. Consequences of Professionalism, Immediate and Institutional......Page 250 9. Fiducial Responsibilities of Professionalism......Page 300 10. Occupational Orientations of Professionalism: “Dividing Line” in the Occupational Order......Page 324 11. Additional Constitutive Qualities: Profession Governance, Behavior, Shared Cognition......Page 356 12. Drawing Distinctions: Structural Qualities, Illustrations and a Rereading......Page 410 References......Page 468 Index......Page 482 Professions are central to any political sociology of major associations, organizations and venues in civil society underpinning democracy; they are not a subset of livelihoods in a mundane sociology of work and occupations. Professions in Civil Society and the State is at once elegant and startling in its directness and the sheer scope of its implications for future comparative research and theory. Not since Talcott Parsons during the early 1970s has any sociologist (or political scientist) pursued this line of inquiry. Sciulli's theoretical approach differs fundamentally from Parsons' and rests on a breadth of historical and cross-national support that always eluded him. The sociology of professions has come full circle, leaving behind Parsons, his critics, and two generations of received wisdom The sociology of professions has come full circle, leaving behind Parsons, his critics, and two generations of received wisdom. David Sciulli demonstrates compellingly that the sociology of professions advances the comparative study of civil society, democracy and rule of law. David Sciulli. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.