SOCY 303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ascribed Status, Expert System, Solidarity

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 303
• Professor: W.Andrew Silver

Document Summary

Socy 303 lecture # 2 (week 1) Key terms: work: socially valued product of service, industries: production of goods and/or service. Abbott (1988): exclusive occupational groups applying somewhat abstract knowledge to particular cases (p. 8) Flexibility: as with rapid knowledge change generally, we can expect profession to isolate those parts of their knowledge vulnerable to expert systems and refound their jurisdiction on non-threatened areas as to the extent necessary (abbot, 1988, p. 183) General knowledge of medicine due to the age variation between patients (babies, infants, children, teenagers, adults, elders) Decline in family physicians over 25 years due to. Losing clients due to due to death, changing in locations, etc. Not enough funding to have physicians spread around geographically because it"s too expensive. We will need family physicians but will not have the capacity to support them. Conceptualizing (and theorizing) the emergence of professional work in canada: pre-industrialization: Work in european feudal society minimal division of labour.