Dados é uma das principais e mais longevas publicações nas ciências sociais no Brasil. Criada em 1966, divulga trabalhos inéditos e inovadores, oriundos de pesquisa acadêmica, de autores brasileiros e estrangeiros. Editada pelo IESP-UERJ, é seu objetivo conciliar o rigor científico e a excelência acadêmica com ênfase no debate público a partir da análise de questões substantivas da sociedade e da política.
Dados vol. 39 n. 1 Rio de Janeiro 1996
Resumo
The article advocates abandoning class theories as instruments in analyzing the professional stratum and posits the advantages of replacing these with a theory of status groups. It begins by discussing both the problems that Marxists run into when they endeavor to account for the position of professionals within the class structure as well as some of the deficiencies found in Weberian solutions to this issue. Using the concept of social closure, attention is then drawn to the notion of academic credentialism as a special case of exclusion, or monopolization of advantages and privileges grounded in cultural elements and in motivations that value factors like education, honor, and occupational conventions. Lately, it is argued that substituting the class principle with the status principle constitutes an analytical operation that can unveil the unique nature of professionals as a stratum and their singular contribution to the structure of social inequalities.
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