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5th Interim Conference of the International Sociological Association

"Challenges to professionalism: Limits and benefits of the professional model"

Sep 12, 2008 - Sep 13, 2008
Oslo University College Oslo Norway
 

Highlights

Professionalism has been regarded as an important basis of modern democratic societies, but also as an ideology legitimising self-interested monopolies. Addressing the limits and benefits of the professional model imply that these perspectives are considered complementary and important for understanding the challenges to professionalism.

The key themes of the conference are challenges in relation to:

* democracy
* the state and policy makers
* managerial/employer control
* the public/clients
* professional/occupational groups
* education, training and development
* the gendered division of labour
* professional ethics and morality
* professional cultures, identities and commitment
* globalisation
* social theories of professional groups
* research methodology


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Sponsors: ISA
Speakers: Erik Oddvar Eriksen (Professor University of Oslo/Centre for the Study of Professions ), Elianne Riska(Professor University of Helsinki), Mike Saks (Professor University of Lincoln)

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