Jurisdictional engagements: Rethinking change in professional authority via pragmatic sociology
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Jurisdictional engagements : Rethinking change in professional authority via pragmatic sociology. / Blok, Anders.
I: European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, Bind 9, Nr. 2, 2022, s. 197-225.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Jurisdictional engagements
T2 - Rethinking change in professional authority via pragmatic sociology
AU - Blok, Anders
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2021 European Sociological Association.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - This article discusses the fruitfulness of Laurent Thévenot’s pragmatic sociology of engagements to the study of change in professional authority, a central yet unresolved theoretical issue in the sociology of professions. Invoking Andrew Abbott’s seminal notion of professional jurisdiction as starting point, the article uncovers how pragmatic sociology’s landmark model of dynamics of justification contains the seeds of an original reworking, build on plural grammars of legitimacy for shoring up public-political authority for expert-professional groups. Adding to this, Thévenot’s elaboration of plan-based and familiar engagement regimes allows one to grasp the equally important role of professionals’ co-shaping of state regulatory instruments and work practices of experience-based judgment, respectively. Professional authority, in this framework, is sustained and undergo meso-historical change at the intersection of these three engagement regimes. Illustrations are drawn from three collaborative case studies of inter-professional coordination in domains of urban climate adaptation, lifestyle disease prevention, and innovation management.
AB - This article discusses the fruitfulness of Laurent Thévenot’s pragmatic sociology of engagements to the study of change in professional authority, a central yet unresolved theoretical issue in the sociology of professions. Invoking Andrew Abbott’s seminal notion of professional jurisdiction as starting point, the article uncovers how pragmatic sociology’s landmark model of dynamics of justification contains the seeds of an original reworking, build on plural grammars of legitimacy for shoring up public-political authority for expert-professional groups. Adding to this, Thévenot’s elaboration of plan-based and familiar engagement regimes allows one to grasp the equally important role of professionals’ co-shaping of state regulatory instruments and work practices of experience-based judgment, respectively. Professional authority, in this framework, is sustained and undergo meso-historical change at the intersection of these three engagement regimes. Illustrations are drawn from three collaborative case studies of inter-professional coordination in domains of urban climate adaptation, lifestyle disease prevention, and innovation management.
KW - Justification work
KW - pragmatic sociology
KW - professional authority
KW - state forms
KW - workplace familiarity
KW - Justification work
KW - pragmatic sociology
KW - professional authority
KW - state forms
KW - workplace familiarity
U2 - 10.1080/23254823.2021.1923546
DO - 10.1080/23254823.2021.1923546
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85130857909
VL - 9
SP - 197
EP - 225
JO - European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology
JF - European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology
SN - 2325-4823
IS - 2
ER -
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