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Modern professionalism is a composite phenomenon, the product of a variety of different historical developments. In the course of this book an ideal type of professionalism will be developed to give the subject conceptual unity, but first an historical perspective is necessary to understand the way such an ideal type emerged and the form which it takes in different societies. Such a perspective is particularly necessary in Britain, to distinguish British professions from their American counterparts and to examine the way in which changes in professions and professionalism were interrelated with other processes of social change. The United States is a country with a small past and a large present. Much of the work on the contemporary situation in the sociology of the professions, discussed in later chapters, has been carried out there. But the course of social change which lies behind the present situation is more easily traced in the longer time-scale available in Britain.
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Elliott, P. (1972). The Development of the Professions in Britain. In: The Sociology of the Professions. New Perspectives in Sociology. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00711-0_2
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