Professions at Bay by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, General, Sociology, Technology & Engineering, Agriculture, Agronomy, Soil Science
ISBN: 9781351731607
Google: DZWpDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-08-15T03:48:53+00:00

Ultimately, as will be argued later, it is powerful groups in society who make judgements about integrity and accord professions the degree of exclusivity they are deemed to deserve.

The problem of the engineering profession is captured in the words of Freidson (1975, p. 73):

If a profession's work comes to have little relationship to the knowledge and value of its society, it may have difficulty in surviving. The profession's privileged position is given by, not seized from, society, and it may be allowed to lapse or may even be taken away.

Few professional engineers need reminding of the persistent problem of defining the term 'engineer'. It appears that everyone from car mechanic to television repairer, and from software designer to the head of the engineering function in a large multinational company can use the title. This is unlikely to change and can only be tackled via differentiation.

From the foregoing it should be apparent that this chapter is less concerned with the pursuit of statutory organizational arrangements than with earning legitimate acceptance by society. Since the days of the Great Engineers the profession has allowed its position in society to lapse. It now needs to mount a campaign of organizational renewal and repositioning.

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