Papers by Magali Sarfatti Larson
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd eBooks, Aug 23, 2017
The particular relation that professionalism bears to individualism and to the subjective illusio... more The particular relation that professionalism bears to individualism and to the subjective illusion deserves to be noted. Their special competence empowers professionals and experts to act in situations where laymen feel incompetent or baffled. In fact, the assumption by the public that the expert is competent creates a sort of pragmatic compulsion for the expert: to certify his worth in the eyes of the laity, he must act. Deferentially requested to intervene by his clients, the expert practitioner is compelled to do something; from this point of view, anything is better than nothing. As Freidson remarks: "Indeed, so impressed is he by the perplexity of his clients and by his apparent capacity to deal with those perplexities, that the practitioner comes to consider himself an expert not only in the problems he is trained to deal with but in all human problems." Most particularly in the personal professions, the behavior of the expert asserts, ideologically, that a variety of ills—and, in particular, those that can most affect the person—have individual remedies. This reinforces the optimistic illusion of ideological individualism: personal problems of all kinds are purely private and admit, as such, individual and ad hoc solutions. In the predominant ideological way of addressing social issues and social relations experienced by individuals, therefore, structural causes, as well as collective action upon those causes, are relegated to a vaguely utopian realm. At the same time, the practitioner9s "compulsion to act" reiterates to the layman that education confers superior powers upon the individual and superior mastery over physical and social environments.
Routledge eBooks, Jul 12, 2017
Journal of Architectural Education, Sep 1, 1995
Rizzoli International eBooks, 1996
Politics & Society, Nov 16, 2020
This essay introduces a special issue of Politics & Society in memory of Erik Olin Wr... more This essay introduces a special issue of Politics & Society in memory of Erik Olin Wright (1947–2019).
Contemporary Sociology, 1991
... PUB TYPE: Book (ISBN 0674031105 ). VOLUME/EDITION: PAGES (INTRO/BODY): 268 p. SUBJECT(S): Uni... more ... PUB TYPE: Book (ISBN 0674031105 ). VOLUME/EDITION: PAGES (INTRO/BODY): 268 p. SUBJECT(S): United States; National Guard; Social conditions; 1865-1918; Armories; Militaryarchitecture. DISCIPLINE: No discipline assigned. LC NUMBER: UA42 .F64 1989. HTTP: ...
Michigan Law Review, 1979
Sociological Forum, Jun 1, 2018
"potential life" would become compelling, and the state could regulate abortion to protect "poten... more "potential life" would become compelling, and the state could regulate abortion to protect "potential life" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade). At that point, the state could even forbid abortion as long as it made an exception to preserve the life or health of the mother (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade). The Court added that the primary right being preserved in the Roe decision was that of the physician to practice medicine freely absent a compelling state interest-not women's rights in general (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade). In 1992, however, the plurality of Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, David Souter, and Anthony Kennedy made a subtle move away from the physician's rights approach of Roe and toward a patient's rights approach in Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey. The plurality in Casey, explicitly confirming that women had a constitutional right to abortion and further upholding the "essential holding" of Roe, stated that women had a right to choose abortion before viability and that this right could not be unduly interfered with by the state (https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade). They asserted that this right was rooted in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment (https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Roe_v._Wade). However, since the 1990s, states have enacted hundreds of new restrictions on the constitutional right to abortion as specified in the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, from obligatory waiting periods and mandated state counseling to limits on public and private insurance funding. Thus, instead of abortion being a normal medical procedure it is ever more a political issue. It remains a contested issue and the interpretation of its legality a muchdebated issue with party politics at its core. Sanger raises the question in her book as to why the rights specified nearly a half century since the ruling in Roe v. Wade is regarded as unsettled. She points out the multiple practices instituted to make it shameful, expensive, and highly visible. She points to multiple regulations such as legislatively mandatory waiting periods, exposure to adoption brochures, and the required burial or cremation of aborted fetal remains. Sanger's book is important today because of the multiple assaults on women's right to have an abortion from the political sphere, marked by political determination to close clinics, defund Planned Parenthood, and reverse Roe v. Wade. It is an important treatise on the multiple attacks on women's rights in America today.
Sociologia, 1970
Profissões hoje: autoavaliação e reflecções para o futuro Les professions aujourd'hui : autoévalu... more Profissões hoje: autoavaliação e reflecções para o futuro Les professions aujourd'hui : autoévaluation et réflexions pour l'avenir Profesiones hoy en día: autoevaluación y reflexiones para el futuro
Contemporary Sociology, 1982
Contemporary Sociology, 1988
... The paradox of professionalism: Reform and public service in urban America, 1900-1940. Post a... more ... The paradox of professionalism: Reform and public service in urban America, 1900-1940. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Kirschner, Don S. PUBLISHER: Greenwood Press (New York). SERIES TITLE: YEAR: 1986. PUB TYPE: Book (ISBN 0313253455 ). ...
Contemporary Sociology, Mar 1, 1995
Contemporary Sociology, Jul 1, 1992
... neatly to cultural constructs, which led me to focus upon the culture of architectural practi... more ... neatly to cultural constructs, which led me to focus upon the culture of architectural practice rather than the culture of architecture. ... there was only one woman (who held responsibilities more traditionally associated with women's work in the design fields: interior design and ...
Radical Teacher, May 28, 2014
Sociologie et sociétés, Sep 30, 2002
Ce document est protégé par la loi sur le droit d'auteur. L'utilisation des services d'Érudit (y ... more Ce document est protégé par la loi sur le droit d'auteur. L'utilisation des services d'Érudit (y compris la reproduction) est assujettie à sa politique d'utilisation que vous pouvez consulter en ligne. https://apropos.erudit.org/fr/usagers/politique-dutilisation/ Cet article est diffusé et préservé par Érudit.
Contemporary Sociology, Jul 1, 1996
Les Annales de la Recherche Urbaine, 1989
Magali Sarfatti Larson, Emblem und Ausnahme. Historische Definition der Rolle des Architekten Die... more Magali Sarfatti Larson, Emblem und Ausnahme. Historische Definition der Rolle des Architekten Die Untersuchung der Geschichte des Architektenberufs schreibt seine erste Konsolidierung vom französischen Akademismus her, der ihn staatlichen Aufträgen unterwirft, während regionale Architektur lokalen Konventionen überlassen bleibt. Die Zurückdrängung der staatlichen Macht durch den Kapitalismus entzieht dem Architekten dir Rolle des Stadtplaners und schränkt ihn auf die Haus-bzw. Denkmalsarchitektur ein, Funktionen, in denen er zur akademischen Tradition zurückfindet — was noch für die Moderne gilt.
International Journal of Health Services, Oct 1, 1979
Historically, the early professionalization movements in medicine and the law appear as organizat... more Historically, the early professionalization movements in medicine and the law appear as organizational projects which aspire to monopolize income and opportunities in markets of services or labor and to monopolize status and work privileges in occupational hierarchies. Their central task is to standardize training and link it to actual or potential markets of labor or services, a linkage that is structurally effected in the modern university. The second wave of professionalization has different protagonists than the older “market professions”: placed in a different structural situation, the bureaucratic professions transform the model of profession (which they adopt as a strategy of collective ascension) into an ideology. The import of the ideology of professionalism is examined in relation to two issues: the relationships between professional occupations and bureaucratic organizations; and the position of professional occupations within the larger structure of inequality. Analysis of the first point requires consideration of the distinctions between professional occupations in the public and private sectors, the use of professional knowledge and the image of profession in bureaucratic organizations, and the specific characteristics of professions that produce their own knowledge. In the discussion of the second point, professional occupations and their ideology are examined in relation to other occupations and to the possibilities of political awareness generated by uncertain professional statuses.
New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1981
ABSTRACT How does a teacher deal with a minority student whose subject of interest is not the cla... more ABSTRACT How does a teacher deal with a minority student whose subject of interest is not the class but racial inequality?
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