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Beyond the Closed Shop? on the Challenges of Organising Professionals in Contemporary Societies
Beyond the Closed Shop? on the Challenges of Organising Professionals in Contemporary Societies
Tuesday, 17 July 2018: 15:30-17:20
Location: 803B (MTCC SOUTH BUILDING)
RC52 Sociology of Professional Groups (host committee) Language: English
The power of professions has been based on their ability to assert jurisdiction and practicing social closure. This is how they kept the authority over the respective social problem and were able to avoid external and internal competition. But this concept seems to become anachronistic in contemporary societies, for many reasons and in many aspects. Facing market constraints the collective interests becomes questioned and the inhomogeneity of professional groups comes to the fore. In particular new occupational groups attempting professionalization have to combine closure with associative strategies. And we know how exclusive even formally open professions as the Arts or Journalism could be. - The session invites papers, discussing the character of organising and the capacities of professional groups to mobilized for collective action. Furthermore is asked, in how far closure might be still - or perhaps becomes again - particularly important in the cause of the ongoing structural changes of professionalism.
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