Profession

A profession is a vocation founded upon specialized educational training, the purpose of which is to supply objective counsel and service to others, for a direct and definite compensation, wholly apart from expectation of other business gain.[1] The term is in essence a rather vaguer version of the term "liberal profession", an anglicisation of the French term "profession libérale". Originally borrowed by English users in the nineteenth century, it has been re-borrowed by international users from the late twentieth, though the (upper-middle) class overtones of the term do not seem to survive retranslation: “liberal professions” are, according to the Directive on Recognition of Professional Qualifications (2005/36/EC) “those practised on the basis of relevant professional qualifications in a personal, responsible and professionally independent capacity by those providing intellectual and conceptual services in the interest of the client and the public”.[2] History[edit] Regulation[edit]

The Professional versus the Business Model in Law and Medicine--Posner The central focus of economic analysis of markets is the activity of profit-maximizing business firms in unregulated competitive markets; and such firms are indeed the central players on the supply side of markets in a free-market economy. Analysis of profit maximization is complicated by the fact that large business firms are complex organizations, and persons who compose such a firm, ranging from shareholders to rank and file workers, have conflicting incentives which can blunt profit maximization to an extent. Competition is itself a complex activity, and firms often find it more profitable to collude in price and concentrate on product competition instead. There are also nonprofit enterprises and government producers to complicate the picture. An important though it seems a diminishing example of a service provider that deviates from the standard model of a profit-maximizing competitive firm is a professional organization such as a law firm or a medical practice.

Why Photography is Not a Profession Photography is Not a Profession © 2006 KenRockwell.com I get my goodies at Amazon and Adorama. It helps me publish this site when you get yours from those links, too. See also: How to Go Pro What is a Professional Photographer What Makes a Professional Camera The Seven Levels Satire means I'm going to poke fun of some things. Professions are occupations like law and medicine. Too many photographers are blind-sided by this reality and never knew what hit them when competing against others or trying to get paid decent prices. Anyone can behave in a professional manner. Professionalism is doing what you promise. Professionalism is being on time, following through and always working in the customer's long term best interests. One's demeanor is not one's occupation. Only some occupations are professions. I'm defining professional more precisely than getting paid to do something. Professions A profession is an occupation in which a person is paid for his knowledge. Teachers are professionals. Trades

Nathan Glazer Nathan Glazer (born February 25, 1923) is an American sociologist who taught at the University of California, Berkeley[2] and for several decades at Harvard University.[3] He is a former co-editor of the now-defunct policy journal The Public Interest.[4][5] Early life[edit] Glazer grew up in East Harlem and the East Bronx in New York City. As Glazer would later recall, "one of the characteristics of [our] group was a notion of its universal competence...culture, politics, whatever was happening we shot our mouths off on...It was a model created by the arrogance that if you’re a Marxist you can understand anything and it was a model that even as we gave up our Marxism we nevertheless stuck with Early postwar career[edit] Glazer's collaborator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. In essence, as one retrospective noted 25 years later, Glazer and Moynihan suggested that "the melting pot metaphor didn't hold water Government service, academia, and The Public Interest[edit] Later career[edit] Books[edit]

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