Professions, Science and the State

We live today in what is called the information society, the expert society, or the knowledge society. Professionals may be called ‘bearers’ of the knowledge society, along with other expert groups at universities and think-tanks, as well as government investigators and researchers employed by private corporations. Professions as such can also be considered ‘bearers’, since they apply discoveries and innovations at workplaces developed by, primarily, scientists and experts. This book has a theoretical approach, and the author presents and discusses social-scientific theories about professions, analyses their strengths and weaknesses, and provides alternative suggestions to theory construction and definition. Professions, Science and the State is the author’s own version of a book he originally published in Swedish, Den professionella logiken (2014).