Professional Powers: A Study of the Institutionalization of Formal Knowledge

by Eliot Freidson

Book Overview

"This is an immensely useful book for sociologists working in a wide range of sub-fields. It confirms Freidson's status among the leading exponents of the old Chicago tradition. This book is catholic in its reading, sophisticated in its arguments and cautious in its judgements."--Robert Dingwall, Sociology

"As an attempt to provide a complex, wide-ranging account this book should be essential reading for specialist students, and it should...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226262251
• ISBN13: 9780226262253
• Release Date: May 1988
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 8.5"