TY - JOUR
T1 - Ecologies of boundaries
T2 - Modes of Boundary Work in Professional Proto-Jurisdictions
AU - Blok, Anders
AU - Lindstrøm, Maria Duclos
AU - Meilvang, Marie Leth
AU - Pedersen, Inge Kryger
PY - 2019/11/1
Y1 - 2019/11/1
N2 - Ecological approaches to professional work, authority, and regulation have seen a resurgence in the sociology of professions, as epitomized in the linked ecologies framework of Andrew Abbott. Alongside this resurgence comes a renewed attention to the way symbolic and material boundaries within and between professions, as well as between professional, university, and political institutions, come to be defined, negotiated, and changed as part of ongoing professional projects. Building on and comparing case studies set in Denmark into three emerging professional “proto‐jurisdictions”—of water‐related climate adaptation, lifestyle disease prevention, and innovation management—this article identifies three key modes of interprofessional boundary work important for such projects. In doing so, it grounds Abbott's meso‐level framework of linked ecologies in more situated accounts of workplace‐level boundary interaction, by reconnecting to a wider tradition of symbolic interactionist studies of professions.
AB - Ecological approaches to professional work, authority, and regulation have seen a resurgence in the sociology of professions, as epitomized in the linked ecologies framework of Andrew Abbott. Alongside this resurgence comes a renewed attention to the way symbolic and material boundaries within and between professions, as well as between professional, university, and political institutions, come to be defined, negotiated, and changed as part of ongoing professional projects. Building on and comparing case studies set in Denmark into three emerging professional “proto‐jurisdictions”—of water‐related climate adaptation, lifestyle disease prevention, and innovation management—this article identifies three key modes of interprofessional boundary work important for such projects. In doing so, it grounds Abbott's meso‐level framework of linked ecologies in more situated accounts of workplace‐level boundary interaction, by reconnecting to a wider tradition of symbolic interactionist studies of professions.
KW - innovation management
KW - profession
KW - jurisdiction
KW - situational analysis
KW - proto-jurisdiction
KW - boundary work
KW - linked ecologies
KW - professional change
KW - workplace interaction
KW - boundary work
KW - linked ecologies
KW - professional change
KW - proto-jurisdictions
KW - workplace interaction
KW - innovation management
KW - profession
KW - jurisdiction
KW - situational analysis
U2 - 10.1002/symb.428
DO - 10.1002/symb.428
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0195-6086
VL - 42
SP - 588
EP - 617
JO - Symbolic Interaction
JF - Symbolic Interaction
IS - 4
ER -