SOC475H5- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 30 pages long!)
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Postprofessionalism: loss of exclusivity, not everyone can practice law or be a doctor, it needs to be exclusive, not everyone can afford a lawyer, they are actually quite expensive. What"s wrong with professionalization: five hidden assumptions (abbott 1986) (1) Because computers took over (2) (3: you cannot assume that the change is unidirectional, lawyers are facing a lot of competition, you cannot assume that you are going to stay at the top. The evolution of individual professions is independent from others: it assumes that the professionalization of lawyers is about lawyers, you do not look at how lawyers compete or interact with other professions. Because their work needs to be done: its problematic to think about these professions without thinking about their work (4) Chicago lawyers - the social structure of the bar. 386-387: top fields: securities, trademark and copyright, international law, patents, bottom fields: divorce, immigration, juvenile, consumer, landlord/tenant, family, path model.
