Symposium: (XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology (July 15-21, 2018))

RC52 Sociology of Professional Groups

Program Coordinator: Helena SERRA (New University of Lisbon, FCSH, Portugal)

Monday, 16 July 2018

10:30-12:20

857

Professions and Power: Challenge and Change
Session Organizer: Michael SAKS
Chair: Michael SAKS

15:30-17:20

858

What Is New in Professional Work? Rebuilding Professions-Organisations Ties
Session Organizer: Helena SERRA
Chair: Helena SERRA

17:30-19:20

859

Professions, Power and (In)Justice
Session Organizer: Helena SERRA
Chair: Helena SERRA

Tuesday, 17 July 2018

08:30-10:20

JS-18

Professions and Professional Service Firms: Private and Public Sector Enterprises in the Global Economy
Session Organizers: Michael SAKS and Daniel MUZIO
Chair: Michael SAKS

10:30-12:20

JS-26

Health Professions: Future International Directions. Part One
Session Organizers: Michael SAKS and Mike DENT
Chair: Mike DENT

15:30-17:20

860

Beyond the Closed Shop? on the Challenges of Organising Professionals in Contemporary Societies
Session Organizer: Christiane SCHNELL
Chair: Christiane SCHNELL

17:30-19:20

861

Professions and Professional Identities
Session Organizer: Helena SERRA
Chair: Christiane SCHNELL

19:30-20:50

862

RC52 Business Meeting

Wednesday, 18 July 2018

08:30-10:20

863

Professional Work in a Globalized World: Migration, Cross-Bordering and Globalization of Knowledge Workers. El Trabajo Profesional En Un Mundo Globalizado: Migración, Transnacionalización y Globalización De Los Trabajadores Del Conocimiento
Session Organizer: Javier HERMO
Chair: Javier HERMO

10:30-12:20

864

Professions and the Grey Zone of Employment: A Blurring Frontier Between Subordination and Independency. a Special Focus on Europe and Latin America
Session Organizers: Christian AZAIS and Tania TOFFANIN

15:30-17:20

865

Power: Exclusions and Interventions in the Professions and Professional Labour Markets
Session Organizers: Debby BONNIN and Shaun RUGGUNAN
Chair: Debby BONNIN

17:30-19:20

866

Transformation and Restructuring of Professions in Globalizing World
Session Organizers: Virendra Pal SINGH and Parvez Ahmad ABBASI
Chair: Parvez Ahmad ABBASI

Thursday, 19 July 2018

08:30-10:20

867

Professions in a Time of Crisis
Session Organizers: Tania TOFFANIN and Christian AZAIS

10:30-12:20

JS-59

Creating a Sustainable and People-Centred Health Workforce: Connecting Global and Local Perspectives
Session Organizers: Ellen KUHLMANN and Viola BURAU

15:30-17:20

JS-64

Health Professions: Future International Directions. Part Two
Session Organizers: Michael SAKS and Mike DENT
Chair: Mike DENT

17:30-19:20

868

Professionalization, Professional Ethics and Semi-Professions: Emerging Issues in Developing Countries
Session Organizer: Arvind CHAUHAN
Chair: Arvind CHAUHAN

Friday, 20 July 2018

08:30-10:20

869

Current Challenges to Professions and Their Regulation, through Transnational Mobility and Inter-Professional Tensions
Session Organizers: Jean-Luc BEDARD and Tracey ADAMS
Chairs: Jean-Luc BEDARD and Tracey ADAMS

10:30-12:20

870

The Rise and Fall of Professional Authority
Session Organizer: Lars Thorup LARSEN

15:30-17:20

871

Varieties of Professionalism: Developing Theory through Comparative Analyses
Session Organizer: Gitte Sommer HARRITS
Chair: Lars Thorup LARSEN

17:30-19:20

872

Changes and Challenges in Theories and Concepts for Professions and Professionalism
Session Organizer: Julia EVETTS
Chair: Julia EVETTS

Saturday, 21 July 2018

08:30-10:20

873

Professions and the State
Session Organizer: Tracey ADAMS
Chair: Jean-Luc BEDARD