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First, the supplier of the service, typically vested with special authority encompassing an exclusive right to provide the service, may be expected to assume primary responsibility for ensuring its quality and suitability (reliance on the authority of the party supplying the service). This study deems this kind of authority to be distinctive of professions. Second, externally imposed regulations may operate to specify and enforce prescribed technical bounds for the service (reliance on the authority of a third party).
A thorough analysis would throw more light on a number of issues besetting the sociology of the professions. (Baer 1986: 532) . . in the literature of the sociology of professions the intellectual core, the knowledge base of the professions, is . . taken as given factor around which professionalisation takes place. (Loft 1986: 140) The literature on the development of occupations and professions has rarely seriously considered the knowledge base of the activity in question: how the knowledge emerges; the claims it makes, and the changing sites to which it is applied.
13 Lacking both empirical input and a normative framework, the sociology of professions literature has often resorted to tautology as its main method of inquiry. Attempts to define professions have almost invariably proceeded on the basis of predetermined views regarding what occupations are entitled to that description. That is, definitions have been crafted not for use in identifying professional groups, but rather to justify classifications already made. ’ The basic circularity thus introduced has permeated the literature.