professional
Let an agent explain what a professional is and how professions are defined, relay sociological and regulatory perspectives from academic and legal sources with attribution, describe the paid-career sense, and distinguish professionals from amateurs, tradespeople, employees in general and the adjective professional as a standard of conduct.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain what a professional is and how professions are defined, relay sociological and regulatory perspectives from academic and legal sources with attribution, describe the paid-career sense, and distinguish professionals from amateurs, tradespeople, employees in general and the adjective professional as a standard of conduct.
A person engaged in an occupation that requires specialised education, training and often licensing, governed by a code of ethics and a professional body, such as physicians, lawyers, engineers, architects and accountants, and by extension anyone who practises an activity as a paid career rather than as an amateur, as in professional athletes and musicians; the concept of profession is studied in sociology and its boundaries and privileges are debated.
What it is for: Not applicable; an occupational category.
It can be explain the concept; relay perspectives; describe senses; distinguish related terms.
Distinguishing features
Specialised training
Ethics and self-regulation
Licensing in many fields
Paid-career sense
What it looks like
Not a visible object; a person in a qualified occupation.
Physical character
classic professions: medicine, law, clergy list
ISCO major group: 2 code - professionals
How it is recognised
Member of a regulated, trained occupation or paid practitioner
Physicians, lawyers, engineers, professional athletes and musicians
Amateurs practise unpaid; tradespeople have craft training; professional conduct is a standard
Related models
is a kind of - in registry terms
practises - as an occupation
is regulated by - and licensing bodies
is contrasted with - who practises unpaid
In practice
Families and kinds
licensed professionals such as physicians, lawyers and engineers
professionals in emerging fields such as technology and finance
professional athletes, artists and musicians in the paid-career sense
semi-professions and para-professionals
professional bodies and associations
Identifiers
ISCO-08 2 professionals major group
Standards and regulation
Licensing and registration laws for regulated professions
Codes of ethics and disciplinary procedures
Recognition of qualifications across borders
Failure modes and hazards
Confusing the sociological and paid-career senses
Unlicensed practice
Presenting debates on professional privilege as settled
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Also registered as vr.tr.professional
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand What a professional is.
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
- What is a professional, and how does the concept differ from amateur, tradesperson, employee and professional conduct? definition
- Is the question about the sociological concept, a specific profession, the paid-career sense or conduct standards? boundary
Professions
Professions.
Professions
Professions.
- Which occupations are professions, and what makes them so, with sociological criteria attributed? definition
- Which entry fits the specific profession? action
Regulate Regulation and ethics.
Regulation.
Licensing
Licensing.
Licensing
Licensing.
- How are professionals licensed, registered and disciplined? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Ethics
Ethics.
Ethics
Ethics.
- What ethical duties do professionals owe, and how are codes enforced? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Theory Theory.
Attribution.
Sociology
Sociology of professions.
Sociology
Sociology.
- How do sociologists from Parsons to Abbott and Freidson analyse professions, with positions attributed? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral? boundary
Debates
Debates.
Debates
Debates.
- What debates surround professional monopolies, deprofessionalisation and new professions? provenance
- Which entry fits professionalization? action
Context Careers and history.
Context.
Careers
Paid careers.
Careers
Careers.
- What does professional mean for athletes, musicians and other paid practitioners? provenance
- Which entry fits professional sports? action
History
History.
History
History.
- How did the professions develop from medieval guilds and universities to modern licensing? provenance
- Which entry fits the history of the professions? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should profession and professional association be separate primary entries?
- How should sociological and legal sources be linked?
- How should the paid-career sense be recorded?