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Project

Established professions in the new landscape of expert work: rethinking dominance, social inequalities and authority.
Code
3E001215
Duration
01 October 2015 → 30 September 2021
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Applied sociology
    • Policy and administration
    • Social psychology
    • Social stratification
    • Social theory and sociological methods
    • Sociology of life course, family and health
    • Other sociology
    • Other sociology
    • Other anthropology
Keywords
sociology medical domination ethnography
 
Project description

Healthcare systems are no longer based on medical domination but on seemingly balancing powers among disciplinary groups. This is the problem that this project proposes to study, by doing ethnographic observation in three countries, as to understand the way the professions organise their work and relate one another.