IV ISA Forum of Sociology (February 23-28, 2021)

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Professional Occupations and Organization.

Abstract Submissions Closed

RC52 Sociology of Professional Groups (host committee)
RC17 Sociology of Organization

Language: English

Session Type: Oral

This is a joint session between RC52/RC17 which seeks to explore the intersection between professional occupations and organizations. Within this context, this session explores the following questions:

         How is the organization of professional firms developing? What new 
   organizational models are emerging?
         To what extent are occupational and organizations actually 
   hybridized or “blended”? In what ways are occupational and professional 
   logics reconfigured, re-stratified and relocated in and around 
   organizations?
         How are professionals managed, motivated, controlled and led 
   within private and public sector professional organizations? What impact do these have for traditional notions of professional autonomy and independence?
        How professional organization favour the equality of access to 
   professions between different social groups? How do the strategies and practices of professional organizations reproduce or disrupt unequal career and opportunity structures within professional occupations?
         To what extent are organizations affecting established 
   professionalization projects? Are they disrupting or harbouring the 
   emergence of new ones? To what extent are they creating new forms of 
   “corporate” professionalism and professionalization and how do these 
   depart form established ones?
        To what extent diversity in organizational types affect the type of 
   professionalism practised by their members? Are we facing a new phase in 
   which instead of one professionalism, we are confronting multiple 
   professionalisms as varied as the type of organizations which sustain them?
         Do (groups of) professional workers have sufficient professional 
   competencies and capabilities to cope with the complexities of tasks and 
   clientele? How are these competencies (re)developed, also outside 
   organizations?