Download or read book Professions and Power written by Terence James Johnson and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1972 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph on the sociology of professionalism and the social mobility of the professional worker - outlines some social theory concepts and discusses the respective roles of occupational organizations, patronage, and state mediation as types of occupational control, and concludes that under present conditions professionalism is in decline in both developed and underdeveloped societies. Bibliography pp. 93 to 96.