Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / D. Sciulli -- Introduction / D. Sciulli -- Chapter One. Approaches And Debates From 1930s To Today / D. Sciulli -- Chapter Two. The Situation On The Continent / D. Sciulli -- Chapter Three. The Paris Visual Académie / D. Sciulli -- Chapter Four. Corporate Governance And Delaware Courts / D. Sciulli -- Chapter Five. Reflections, Analyses, Appraisals / D. Sciulli -- Chapter Six. Professions And Structured Situations / D. Sciulli -- Chapter Seven. Independent Socio-Cultural Authority Of Professionalism / D. Sciulli -- Chapter Eight. Consequences Of Professionalism, Immediate And Institutional / D. Sciulli -- Chapter Nine. Fiducial Responsibilities Of Professionalism / D. Sciulli -- Chapter Ten. Occupational Orientations Of Professionalism: “Dividing Line” In The Occupational Order / D. Sciulli -- Chapter Eleven. Additional Constitutive Qualities: Profession Governance, Behavior, Shared Cognition / D. Sciulli -- Chapter Twelve. Drawing Distinctions: Structural Qualities, Illustrations And A Rereading / D. Sciulli -- References / D. Sciulli -- Index / D. Sciulli.

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Professions are central to any political sociology of major associations, organizations and venues in civil society underpinning democracy; they are not a subset of livelihoods in a mundane sociology of work and occupations. Professions in Civil Society and the State is at once elegant and startling in its directness and the sheer scope of its implications for future comparative research and theory. Not since Talcott Parsons during the early 1970s has any sociologist (or political scientist) pursued this line of inquiry. Sciulli’s theoretical approach differs fundamentally from Parsons’ and rests on a breadth of historical and cross-national support that always eluded him. The sociology of professions has come full circle, leaving behind Parsons, his critics, and two generations of received wisdom.