Professions, Work and Careers addresses some of the central themes
that preoccupied the eminent sociologist Anselm Strauss. This
collection is directed at sociologists concerned with the
development of theory and graduate and undergraduate students in
the sociology of work and the sociology of medicine. His approach
is both thematic and topical.Straus examines organization,
profession, career, and work, in addition to related matters such
as socialization, occupational identity, social mobility, and
professional relationships, all in a social psychological context.
Because medicine is considered by many to be the prototype
profession, Strauss effectively illustrates many of the points by
allusion to nurses, chemists, hospitals, wards, and terminal care.
The progression of ideas in these essays are a befitting source for
the study of structure, interaction and process, other themes that
occupied Strauss in his other research enterprises.As Irving Louis
Horowitz noted at the time of Anselm Strauss's death in 1996:
"Anselm was and remained a social psychologist of a special sort.
He appreciated that what takes place in the privacy of our minds
translates into public consequences for the social fabric. His
statements on personal problems are invariably followed in quick
succession by intensely sociological essays on close awareness,
face-to-face interaction, and structured interactions. The subtext
distinguishes sociological from psychiatric conventions, seeing
everything from daydreams to visions in interactionist frames
rather than as pathology. The implications of his explorations into
the medical profession are stated gently, but carry deep
ramifications, for the act of people treating each other
compassionately, not less than professionally, is also an act of
awareness. Treating the human person as a creature of dignity, when
generalized, becomes the basis for constructing human society."The
late Anselm Strauss was a pioneer in bridging the gap between
theory and data in sociology. This collection of his works,
available in paperback for the first time, will be a valuable
resource for professionals and students interested in grounded
social theory.Anselm L. Strauss was professor of sociology and
chairman of the graduate program in sociology, University of
California, San Francisco. He is the author of numerous books
including Creating Sociological Awareness and editor of Where
Medicine Fails, both published by Transaction.
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