Research Handbook on the Sociology of the Professions

Edited by Tracey L. Adams, Department of Sociology, The University of Western Ontario, Canada

• Contents1 Introduction to Research Handbook on the Sociology of the Professions 1Tracey L. AdamsPART I Theoretical Perspectives on Professions in Society2 Oppressors or saviours? The role of professions in a changing world 21Mike Saks3 Professions and capitalism 35Sida Liu4 The moral work of professional coordination: insights from Frenchpragmatic sociology 48Marie Leth Meilvang and Anders Blok5 Challenging professions theory: tensions and cooperation mechanisms ininterprofessional teamwork in health 61Helena SerraPART II Challenges and Changes Impacting Professionals6 Power is knowledge? (In)visible conflicts within contemporaryprofessionalism 77Christiane Schnell7 Space, place and the sociology of professions: blanketing anddifferentiating effects in teachers’ work 91Karolina Parding, Susan McGrath-Champ, Meghan Stacey, ScottFitzgerald, Mihajla Gavin, and Rachel Wilson8 Transnational organising of professional practices 105Katja Maria Hydle and James FaulconbridgePART III Healthcare Professionals in Changing Times9 Integrating care systems and the changing eco-systems of health and carework 125Justin Waring, Simon Bishop, Jenelle Clarke, and Bridget Roe10 Dilemmas of professional work: the case of family physicians 141Nancy Côté, Jean-Louis Denis, Andrew Freeman, and Marie-Dominique Beaulieu11 Professional hysteresis: the changing asymmetries of the medicalprofession in Turkey 155Elyesa KoytakPART IV Professions and Technological Change12 The data science epidemic: a perspective from the sociology of professionsand expertise 175Netta Avnoon13 Digital healthcare management as organisational scripting: doctors makingsense of how screen-level workflow management is transforming medicalwork 188Sirpa Wrede14 Behind the scenes of a nascent phase of data and artificial intelligencetechnologies’ integration into public administration and services: theboundary work of public sector professionals 203Marta ChoroszewiczPART V Professionalisation and Professionalism15 Absent professionalisation: exploring how a welfare state area fails tomaterialise in a professional domain 221Tone Alm Andreassen16 The ambivalent professionalisation of volunteer community firstresponders in England 237Gupteswar Patel and Joana Almeida17 Multiple professionalisms in childcare 0–3: the case of Barcelona 252Lara Maestripieri and Raquel Gallego18 Differentiation and solidarity in the making of creative professionalism:the case of Italy 270Andrea Bellini and Silvia LucciariniPART VI Inequalities in Professional Work19 Gender inclusivity in the legal profession: career opportunities andworkplace climate 287Fiona Kay and Martine Rondeau20 Co-operating for a change? Tackling classed exclusions through collectiveownership 305Ian McDonald and Louise Ashley21 The gendered nature of geographically mobile care work: how mobilehealthcare workers navigate work, mobility and family life 321Ivy Bourgeault, Lois Jackson, Audrey Kruisselbrink, Sheri Price,Pauline Gardiner Barber, Michael Leiter, and Shiva NourpanahPART VII States, Regulation, and Professions22 Institutional change and admission processes for regulated professions:the case of internationally trained engineers aiming to work in Quebec,Canada 334Jean-Luc Bédard and Marie-Pierre Bourdages-Sylvain23 Gendered professional ecology and political polarization in the legalprofession in Brazil 353Maria da Gloria Bonelli24 The changing nature of state-profession relations: the case of threeCanadian provinces 367Tracey L. Adams

‘This rich Handbook brings together contributions from leading researchers in the field today. Following thoughtful chapters that set the theoretical stage, wide-ranging case studies – from Swedish teachers to Turkish physicians to Brazilian lawyers – illuminate the challenges facing professions in this moment when their expertise is increasingly subject to mistrust.’