Professions in Process
Abstract
A process approach to professions focuses upon diversity and conflict of interest within a profession and their implications for change. The model posits the existence of a number of groups, called segments, within a profession, which tend to take on the character of social movements. Segments develop distinctive identities and a sense of the past and goals for the future, and they organize activities which will secure an institutional position and implement their distinctive missions. In the competition and conflict of segments in movement the organization of the profession shifts.
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Challenges posed by AI may be interpreted differently depending on the specialized role identities that develop within the wider professional domain.
“Such challenges may be interpreted quite differently, however, depending on the specialized role identities which develop within the wider professional domain.”
From The AI of the Beholder: Intra‐Professional Sensemaking of an Epistemic Technology (2025) · cites this paper as Bucher and Strauss, 1961
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- Authors
- Bucher, R., & Strauss, A.
- Venue
- American Journal of Sociology
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1961-01
- Volume
- 66
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 325-334
- ISSN
- 0002-9602 (ISSN-L)
- 1537-5390
- OpenAlex
- W2082523327
- Cited by
- 821
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 13 · 2025: 20 · 2024: 26 · 2023: 29 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 42 · 2020: 38 · 2019: 24 · 2018: 28 · 2017: 20 · 2016: 28 · 2015: 13 · 2014: 23 · 2013: 17 · 2012: 19
- FWCI
- 15.84
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- American Journal of Sociology (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Management and Organizational Studies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Education, sociology, and vocational training
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice
- Keywords
- professions, process approach, career change, professional diversity, conflicts of interest, social movements, professional identity, institutional position, professional associations
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