Challenging Dualism: Public Professionalism in ‘Troubled’Times  

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Gleeson, Denis ; Knights, David

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Sociology vol. 40 no. 02 (Apr. 2006), page 277–295.
Topik: dualism; professionalism; public
Fulltext: 277.pdf (160.68KB)

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In recent decades neo-liberal reform has significantly impacted on public sector professionals. Sociological interest in such impact has tended to focus on professionals as subjects of such reform: as either de-professionalized ‘victims’ who feel oppressed by the structures of control or strategic operators seeking to contest the spaces and contradictions of market, managerial and audit cultures. Such a dualism is reflective of wider separations of agency and structure that have plagued sociology down the years. Our approach challenges modernizing agendas which seek to re-professionalize or empower professionals without examining the changing conditions of their work or the neo-liberal conditions which frame their practice. It also questions the policy outcomes of reconciling the dualism between agency and structure through a ‘third way’ politics that purports to remove the tensions and conflicts between professions and various stakeholders, the private and the public, and markets and civic society.

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