Professional Careers

Kevin T. Leicht

doi:10.1002/9781118410868.wbehibs539

Professional Careers

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Professional careers have, traditionally, involved steady work with steadily rising earnings, and relatively high social and occupational prestige. For the professions that meet this definition (physicians, lawyers, university professors, accountants, pharmacists, engineers, and scientists) the steady and predictable professional career is under threat from multiple sources. Current research on professional careers focuses on two principal issues: (1) changes from inside the professions as practitioners become more diversified demographically and in terms of their professional interests and specialization; and (2) changes in the relative salience of institutional and technical environments in altering the logics of professional service delivery.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society
Editors	William C Cockerham, Robert Dingwall, Stella Quah
Publisher	John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Pages	1885-1888
ISBN (Electronic)	9781118410868
ISBN (Print)	9781444330762
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118410868.wbehibs539
State	Published - Feb 21 2014
Externally published	Yes

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employment and unemployment
health administration
health professions

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