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Derber, Charles; Schwartz, William A.; Magrass, Yale

 
9780195037784: Power in the Highest Degree: Professionals and the Rise of a New Mandarin Order
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ISBN 10: 0195037782 ISBN 13: 9780195037784
Editorial: OUP USA, 1990

Sinopsis

One of the most sweeping works of social criticism to appear in years, this work offers a bold theory of modern classes and a comprehensive portrait of the modern professional. Drawing on one of the largest studies ever undertaken, including interviews with over 1,000 professionals, the authors show how experts, claiming a monopoly on many types of knowledge, are radically transforming the economic and social order.

This book demonstrates how this has resulted in many citizens becoming deeply insecure about their competence to manage private and public affairs without professional guidance.

The authors make a case for a society that radically democratizes knowledge while retaining many non-exclusive aspects of professionalism.

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Acerca del autor

Charles Derber is Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston College, where William A. Schwartz is a doctoral student in sociology. Yale Magrass is Professor of Sociology at Southeastern Massachusetts University.

De la contraportada

Power in the Highest Degree, one of the most comprehensive studies of professionals ever undertaken, exposes professionalism as a double-edged sword that is transforming capitalist and socialist societies alike. Drawing on interviews with over 1,000 practicing professionals--about their work, politics, and personal lives--the authors show how, by dispensing self-interested and morally colored judgments as scientific truth, modern professionals are trying to monopolize what passes for objective knowledge.

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Editorial
OUP USA
Año de publicación
1990
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0195037782
ISBN 13 
9780195037784
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de páginas
288
Contacto del fabricante
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