Essays on Professions

Over the past 30 years Robert Dingwall has published an influential series of articles on the professions, especially law and medicine. This represents a substantial and coherent body of work in an important sub-discipline of sociology, but it is presently fragmented and many of the essays are difficult to obtain. This volume assembles the best of these writings in a single place, making them more accessible for use as a whole.
The ten essays are republished in their original form, each bearing the traces of the time and plate it was written. In sum they provide a fascinating account of an academic journey. They are introduced with a foreword from the author, who places the work in context and offers some thoughts about hot it might be used by scholars in developing the field, to evaluate; for example, the effects of the New Labour period on professional autonomy.
These essays will be indispensable to sociologists with a general interest in the professions and to scholars of law, medicine and business.

Robert Dingwall is Professor of Sociology and Director of ISS at the University of Nottingham, UK.