Professions, Science and the State
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Professions, Science and the State

How Science and Practice are United in the Contemporary Knowledge Society

  1. 327 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Professions, Science and the State

How Science and Practice are United in the Contemporary Knowledge Society

About this book

We live today in what is called the information society, the expert society, or the knowledge society. Professionals may be called 'bearers' of the knowledge society, along with other expert groups at universities and think-tanks, as well as government investigators and researchers employed by private corporations. Professions as such can also be considered 'bearers', since they apply discoveries and innovations at workplaces deve-loped by, primarily, scientists and experts. This book has a theoretical approach, and the author presents and discusses social-scientific theories about profess-ions, analyses their strengths and weaknesses, and provides alternative suggestions to theory construction and definit-ion.Professions, Science and the State is the author's own version of a book he originally published in Swedish, Den pro-fessionella logiken (2014).

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Information

Publisher
Studentlitteratur
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9789144197104
Edition
0
Subtopic
Politics

Table of contents

  1. Förord
  2. Introduction: A world of science, experts and professions
  3. A historical sketch of the dialectic between professions, state …|and society in Sweden
  4. The beginning of theories of professions: naive and cynical perspectives
  5. Modern studies of the professions and the issue of definition …|: the return of the list or attributes approach
  6. Philosophy of science interlude: causal realism, mechanisms and structures
  7. The third entity: Ontological models as linchpins of science
  8. Science and profession: integrating knowing why with knowing how
  9. The knowledge bases of semiprofessions and the relationship between …|theory and practice
  10. Professional structures and the constitution of professional objects
  11. The social conditions and characteristics of professions
  12. Summary and conclusions
  13. References
  14. Endnotes
  15. Index