Power in the Highest Degree: Professionals and the Rise of a New Mandarin Order

by William A. Schwartz, Yale Magrass, Charles Derber, et al.

Book Overview

Lawyer, doctor, scientist--these are the jobs Americans commonly cite when asked to list the most prestigious occupations. The word "professional" today implies expertise, authority, and excellence. To do a job professionally is to do it well. Yet in a society in which knowledge has become a prized asset and an advanced degree the ticket to wealth and power, the rise of professionalism has a darker, more ominous side.
Power in the Highest Degree,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195037782
• ISBN13: 9780195037784
• Release Date: June 1990
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"