Professional careers and biographies / Malcolm Johnson -- Becoming a judge / Alan Paterson
pt. I. Professions, knowledge and power: -- The theory of the professions: state of the art / Eliot Freidson -- Professional, autonomy and the social control of expertise / Dietrich Rueschemeyer -- The rivals: an essay on the sociological trades / P.M. Strong. pt. II. Professional work: -- Professional mystery: maintenance of charisma in general medical practice / Gordon Horobin -- The general practice lawyer and the client: towards a radical conception / Maureen Cain -- Solicitors and clients: altruism or self-interest / Philip Thomas and Geoff Mungham -- Mega-law and mega-lawyering in the contemporary United States / Celia Davies -- Professionals in bureaucracies: solicitors in private practice and local government / Topsy Murray, Robert Dingwall and John Eekelaar. pt. III. Professional careers: -- The production of the professional community / Paul Atkinson
Analysis
Professions
Sociologists
Notes
Includes indexes
Papers originally presented at a conference held in Oxford, Easter 1979