In The System of Professions Andrew Abbott explores central questions about the role of
professions in modern life: Why should there be occupational groups controlling expert …

This research examines the relationship between personal and role-related factors and
commitment to the employing organization. Subjects are 318 elementary and secondary …

HIS paper is concerned with a little explored area of social theory: the structural strains and
supports between a contained community and the larger society of which it is a part and on …

Representing the research findings and experiences growing out of a college how-to-study
program, this manual, which is a revision of the author's Diagnostic and Remedial …

Durkheim's and Mannheim's ideas about careers as a source of social integration are put to
the test among 678 urban white males of the upper-working and lower-middle classes, aged …

A study of 264 certified public accountants in large public accounting firms showed that
when professionals work in a professional-bureaucratic organization, conflict and …

Using documentation from professional literature, this article reviews and examines the
professionalization, deprofessionalization, and reprofessionalization of rehabilitation …

This is an unchanged republication of the first historical account of the social work
profession in Australia. It traces the development of social work education and professional …

Highlights•Genetic science and technologies have made impressive progress in the past
decades.•New technologies open the way for the screening of a wide range of genetic …

Georgraphic mobility statistics for professional, technical and kindred workers from the 1960
Census one-in-a-thousand sample are broken down by detailed occupations and examined …