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The Politics of Knowledge: Activist Movements in Medicine and Planning(SUNY series in the Sociology of Work and Organizations)

The Politics of Knowledge: Activist Movements in Medicine and Planning(SUNY series in the Sociology of Work and Organizations)


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In this book the author examines the question of the compatibility of politics, policy-making, and professional work. Based on nineteen case studies of organizations, Hoffman looks at "what happened" as doctors and planners set out to redistribute services to minorities and the poor between 1960 and 1980.

Table of Contents:
Preface Part I: The Professions and Social Change 1. The Professions and Social Movements 2. Medicine, Planning, and Activist Organizations 3. The Postwar Context of Activism Part II: Strategies of Change 4. Delivering Services 5. Empowering People 6. Transforming the Workplace: Professionals as Workers 7. Transforming Society: Professional as a Political Vanguard Part III: The Politics of Professional Knowledge 8. The Political Significance of Activism 9. The Problem of Professional Knowledge Notes Glossary of Acronyms Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Lily M. Hoffman is Assistant Professor at the Eugene Lang College of the New School for Social Research.

Review :
"Dr. Hoffman's important work is one of the few empirical studies which focuses both on the dynamics of social movements and on conflicts over professionalization, especially on the role of knowledge as a political force." - Robert R. Alford, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, The City University of New York "Hoffman's penetrating analysis of the confrontation between professionalism and activism is a much needed corrective for the overly enthusiastic hopes for each change in the professions, as well as for the equally enthusiastic faith in those professional mystiques that exist mainly to uphold occupational self-interest. An important book for social scientists, professionals, and activists of all kinds!" - Herbert J. Gans, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University "Hoffman's book is a major effort to come to grips empirically and theoretically with one of the central issues of our time-the endemic tension between professionalism and democratic values." - Susan S. Fainstein, Professor of Urban Planning and Policy Development, Rutgers University "Very little scholarly work has been done on the powerful effects that the protest movements of 'the Sixties' had on the practice and self-understanding of professions. The felicitous choice of medicine and planning shows, behind the substantial differences in the effects of activism, that professionalism is built on a common core: experts cannot allow for long challenges to the superior authority of their knowledge, either from the outside or the inside of the profession. The finding that this is the limit of radical reform 'from within' is very important in both theoretical and political terms." - Magali Sarfatti Larson, Temple University


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780887069499
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 302
  • Series Title: SUNY series in the Sociology of Work and Organizations
  • Sub Title: Activist Movements in Medicine and Planning
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0887069495
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jun 1989
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 399 gr


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