Multilevel Approach of Professional Fields : Differentiation of Professional Status inside Governance

Multilevel approach of professional groups set up a large differentiation of issues, practices and status inside the same professional groups. This approach will be developed  for planners and secondary teachers in France. Local surveys frame the observation on a rich diversity of practices and capabilities.  National surveys focus on the normative requirements of professional integration (certification, regulation).  European survey focus on the governance models inside the convergence of professional standards (Swensson).The notion of profession can be framed inside three repertoires of  issues. We recognize a differentiation of perceptions and  of professional claims within the relations between  qualification and autonomy for teacher, between status and recognition  for knowledge workers (Larsons, Abott)

 The  sociological question comes to specify  the place  of professional groups inside the networks of  globalization. The convergence of  expert knowledge standards  at the global level do not mask the intense differentiation inside each professional groups (Freidson), between the level of practices  and the definition of professional responsibility, between meritocracy and salarees. The professional fields frame a  tensive reorganization between these different levels and different status.