A Spectre Haunts American Scholars: The Spectre of "Professionalism.".

Metzger, Walter P.

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Publication Date: 1987

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A Spectre Haunts American Scholars: The Spectre of "Professionalism."

Metzger, Walter P.

Educational Researcher, v16 n6 p10-19 Aug-Sep 1987

Discusses development inadequacies of recent scholarship on professionalism. In the last four decades historians and social scientists have developed increasingly negative opinions of and approaches to the professions. They falsely attribute historical trends to the ascendence of professions in American society. (PS)

Descriptors: Change Agents, Employment Level, Majority Attitudes, Prestige, Professional Occupations, Professional Recognition, Social Attitudes, Sociocultural Patterns, Standards, Status

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Language: English

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