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Gleeson, Denis and Knights, David (2006) Challenging dualism : public professionalism in ‘troubled’ times. Sociology, Vol.40 (No.2). pp. 277-295. doi:10.1177/0038038506062033 ISSN 0038-0385.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038038506062033
Abstract
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.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Institute of Education ( -2013) | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Professional employees, Sociology , Public service employment | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Sociology | ||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||
ISSN: | 0038-0385 | ||||
Official Date: | 2006 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.40 | ||||
Number: | No.2 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 277-295 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1177/0038038506062033 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) |
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