Qualifying Associatns  Ils 161

Millerson, Geoffrey

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“…Pressures on freedom were perceived to compromise professional status. Professions require community rather than self-interest, public service rather than private gain and adherence to a code of ethics, as well as theoretical knowledge (Barber 1963) and service to public good (Millerson 1964). The participants all had strong convictions and individualistic approaches.…”

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The language of dissent – how school leaders adjust to policy change

Kurowski¹

2020

ERL Journal

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Education has changed recently in the England and leadership of schools has changed with it. This paper examines the language of dissent, the political opposition of school leaders who meet the challenges of the educational system resulting from the government policies. They question whether these policies really serve the pupils and the community effectively. It is based on a wider piece of research involving interviews with head teachers and senior managers in a range of schools; it illustrates their frustrations at delivering a prescriptive curriculum. The research takes a grounded theory approach; throughout the interview process, themes emerged and were developed through layers of analysis. This led to the construction of a framework based on the ideas of power, ethics, resistance, and mistrust. This explains the views of school leader in conceptual terms, and it was found that they use of any form of control at their disposal, bring their own values to education, subvert where they see necessary, and at best tolerate policy.

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The language of dissent – how school leaders adjust to policy change

Kurowski¹

2020

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“…The work of sociologist Geoffrey Millerson offers a productive theoretical starting point from which to establish the function of image in the process of professionalization. Millerson’s (1964) landmark examination of the professions in Britain in The Qualifying Associations was based on extensive quantitative research into 138 professional organizations in Britain. Working under a Durkheimian sociological tradition (Durkheim, 1997 [1893]), Millerson developed a theory of professional identity as ‘a dynamic process’ composed through belief systems, ethics, lifestyles and attitudes.…”

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“…This refers to the image the professionals hold of themselves (self-image), how they are seen by the broader public and by other professionals. Under this reading, professional identity can be understood as ‘a complex of perceptions, attitudes and beliefs about educational attainment and background, conditions of work, style of life and affiliations and loyalties’ (Millerson, 1964: 159). Millerson argued that self-image was, thus, critical to the professions, creating a role expectation, pre-determining and reinforcing the content of and adherence to, professional conduct.…”

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A new image for a new profession: Self-image and representation in the professionalization of design in Britain, 1945–1960

Armstrong

2017

Journal of Consumer Culture

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This article explores the relationship between self-image, representation and professionalization in the formative years of the design profession in Britain between 1945 and 1960 through a focused empirical study of two independent but interrelated design organizations, the Society of Industrial Artists and the Council of Industrial Design. The article examines publications, correspondence and internal memoranda to identify attempts by both institutions to manage, steer and govern the professional image of the designer. As this material reveals, both organizations held the image of the gentleman professional as an aspirational figure for emerging designers. Attending to a gap in historical and sociological readings of the professions, the article establishes the discursive function of self-image in relation to the particular value of professionalism in design, suggesting that dress, behaviour and physical appearance can be read as sources through which to historicize and theorize the shifting status of the designer in the cultural economy.

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“… 1. Early sociological studies of the professions had attempted to identify the special attributes or traits that defined these occupational groupings. These ‘largely sterile’ first studies (Johnson, 1972: 10) claimed that the professions were defined by traits such as expert knowledge, codes of conduct and altruism (Carr-Saunders and Willson, 1933; Millerson, 1964). …”

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Abortion Law and Professional Boundaries

Thomson

2013

Social & Legal Studies

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The medical profession’s formative role in the development of abortion law has been acknowledged. A number of the studies to have considered the development of law in the nineteenth century have traced how the emerging profession’s campaigns against abortion advanced its social and economic goals. Analysis of abortion law as a focus for medicine’s professionalisation has not, however, extended into the twentieth century. Consideration of this period generally characterises medicine’s influence as a product of its professional power. Rather than evidence of a static professional status, this article argues that consideration of the first half of the twentieth century reveals how abortion remained the terrain on which the profession actively pursued its occupational ambitions. Further, it highlights how medical responses to abortion changed as the imperatives of professionalisation changed. Employing work that has highlighted the importance of boundaries for enduring social entities, this article recognises abortion as a boundary issue for the profession; that is, a key site where professional jurisdiction is asserted. A dynamic model of the processes of professionalisation, and an identification of the role of abortion in medicine’s professionalisation project, is essential in order to understand the contemporary social and legal reality of abortion.

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Qualifying Associatns Ils 161

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The language of dissent – how school leaders adjust to policy change

The language of dissent – how school leaders adjust to policy change

A new image for a new profession: Self-image and representation in the professionalization of design in Britain, 1945–1960

Abortion Law and Professional Boundaries

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