The System of Professions¶
Abbott, A. (1988). The System of Professions: An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor. University of Chicago Press.
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Primes¶
- Mediator Availability Constraint
- However, when mediator scarcity exists, gatekeepers (professional bodies, credentialing institutions) may exploit that scarcity to control supply and maintain status or pricing, a dynamic Abbott (1988) analyzes in his account of how professions compete for jurisdictional control over expert knowledge.
This sourceSociological theory of how professions compete for jurisdictional control over expert work; clarifies the structural distinction between deliberate gatekeeping (jurisdictional defense) and intrinsic mediator scarcity (capacity limits of individual experts).
- However, when mediator scarcity exists, gatekeepers (professional bodies, credentialing institutions) may exploit that scarcity to control supply and maintain status or pricing, a dynamic Abbott (1988) analyzes in his account of how professions compete for jurisdictional control over expert knowledge.
- Shirky Principle
- And in academic disciplines, subfields can depend on the unresolved status of their defining research question.
This sourceAnalyzes how professions compete for and sustain jurisdiction over solvable problems, their standing tied to the persistence of the problems they claim — supporting the claim that professions/subfields depend on the continued (unresolved) status of their defining problem.
- And in academic disciplines, subfields can depend on the unresolved status of their defining research question.
Domain-specific¶
- Professionalization
- Andrew Abbott relocated attention from a trait checklist to competition among occupations for jurisdiction over tasks
This sourceReframes professions as an interdependent system whose members compete for jurisdiction over tasks — at work, in public opinion and in law — displacing trait and stage accounts of professionalization.
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- Andrew Abbott relocated attention from a trait checklist to competition among occupations for jurisdiction over tasks
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