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Charles Derber

Power in the Highest Degree

Professionals and the Rise of a New Mandarin Order

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Lawyer, doctor, scientist--these are the jobs Americans commonly cite when asked to list the most prestigious occupations. The word professional today implies expertise, authority, and excellence. To do a job professionally is to do it well. Yet in a society in which knowledge has become a prized asset and an advanced degree the ticket to wealth and power, the rise of professionalism has a darker, more ominous side.Power in the Highest Degree, one of the most comprehensive studies of professionals ever undertaken, exposes professionalism as a double-edged sword; it illustrates how experts have come to own and control knowledge, much like the… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Schwartz, William A. / Magrass, Yale
  • ISBN: 978-0-19-536506-1
  • EAN: 9780195365061
  • Produktnummer: 19559380
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 1990
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 19'067 KB

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Charles Derber is Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston College, where William A. Schwartz is a doctoral student in sociology. Yale Magrass is Professor of Sociology at Southeastern Massachusetts University.

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