Professions And The State - Expertise and Autonomy in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

The first survey of the major professions in the USSR

List of contents

Preface
1. Professions and the State in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union: Theoretical Issues - Eliott Krause
2. The Hybrid Profession: Soviet Medicine - Mark G. Vleld
3. Lawyers In the Soviet Union - Louise Shelley
4. Soviet Engineers as a Professional Group - Eduard Gioeckner
5. The "Purposeful Science" of Soviet Sociology: Will It Become a Profession? - Llah Greenfeld
6. Teachers in the Soviet Union - Anthony Jones
7. Constraints on Professional Power in Soviet-Type Society: Insights From the 1980-81 Solidarity Period in Poland - Michael Kennedy and Konrad Sadkowski
8. Hierarchy of Status and Prestige Within the Medical Profession In Czechoslovakia - Aiena Heitiinger
9. Professions, the State, and the Reconstruction of Socialist Societies - Anthony Jones and Eliott Krause
About the Contributors

About the author

Anthony Jones currently teaches Sociology at Northeastern University and is a Fellow at the Russian Center of Harvard University.

Summary

The first survey of the major professions in the USSR

Product details

• Authors: Anthony Jones
• Assisted by: Anthony Jones (Editor)
• Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.05.1991
• EAN: 9780877228011
• ISBN: 978-0-87722-801-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Arts and Their Philosophies; Arts and Their Philosophies; Labor and Social Change
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Berufsberatung