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Professional Ethics
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Through comparative analysis, this paper estabilishes five basic properties of professional ethics codes: universal distribution, correlation with intraprofessional status, enforcement dependent on visibility, individualism, and emphasis on colleage obligations. After discussing traditional explanations of these properties from the functionalist and monopolist perspectives, the paper adds a third perspective,relating ethics directly to intra-and extrapofessional status. A final section analyzing developments in professional ethics in America since 1900 specifies the interplay of the three processes hypothesized in the competing perspectives.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Abbott, A.
- Corresponding author
- Abbott, Andrew
- ORCID
- Abbott, Andrew
- Venue
- American Journal of Sociology
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1983-03
- Volume
- 88
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 855-885
- ISSN
- 0002-9602 (ISSN-L)
- 1537-5390
- OpenAlex
- W4239870143
- Cited by
- 228
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 17 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 12 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 10 · 2013: 8 · 2012: 6
- FWCI
- 11.89
- 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 › Ethics in Business and Education
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Management and Organizational Studies
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Ethics in medical practice
- Keywords
- professional ethics, professional ethics code, professional status, individualism, functionalism
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