Context: One of health care's foremost challenges is the achievement of integration and
collaboration among the groups providing care. Yet this fundamentally group‐related issue …

This article considers points of convergence and divergence in English-language
publications in the sociology of professions. While research on professions in the US, UK …

As professionals belong to occupational systems but also increasingly work inside
organizations, new linkages between occupational and organizational domains are …

The training of coaches is considered central to sustaining and improving the quality of
sports coaching and the ongoing process of professionalisation. Sports coaches participate …

Many public services are produced by professional workers who deal with cases and clients
on the basis of professional knowledge and skills. As groups of workers, they acquired …

Résumé La multiplication de réformes, au sein des administrations, mobilisant des principes
et des instruments inspirés de la doctrine du New Public Management (NPM), a provoqué …

Background The provision of peer support as a component of mental health care, including
the employment of Peer Workers (consumer-providers) by mental health service …

This major new text on the theory and practice of public management moves away from
descriptive accounts of its evolution to provide a systematic treatment of the key paradigms …

This paper re‐visits and re‐appraises Freidson's restratification thesis. His thesis was
proposed in the mid‐1980s to counter the idea of de‐professionalisation, suggesting …

This paper makes the case for the neo-Weberian approach for analyzing the professions. It
starts by reviewing the difficulties of other main approaches to the sociology of professions …