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Professions as Science-Based Occupations

In English

Författare

  • Thomas Brante

Summary, in English

How professions should be defined and separated from other occupations has constituted an enduring theoretical and empirical problem in studies of the professions. In this article, the definitions of the so-called list approaches, involving enumerations of social attributes, are scrutinized. Weak-nesses are highlighted and analysed. It is argued that an alternative approach to the issue of definition, commencing from the epistemic or cognitive dimensions of professions, may be more fruitful. One such possibility is presented by setting out from realist philosophy of science. The links between science and profession are explored by addressing, primarily, the relation between the concepts of mechanism and intervention. A new, ‘invariant’ definition is proposed. In conclusion, a few consequences for future empirical studies of the professions are outlined.

Avdelning/ar

Publiceringsår

2011

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

4-20

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Professions and Professionalism

Volym

1

Issue

1

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus

Ämne

  • Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)

Nyckelord

  • profession
  • definition of profession
  • professional attributes
  • philosophy of science
  • mechanism
  • intervention

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1893-1049