Professionalism

complexions of professions as a status category changed from “status professionalism” (i.e., “gentlemanly professionalism”) to “occupational professionalism.” “For the first time in the latter half of the nineteenth century, the professional stratum became definable by the now-familiar matrix of tasks involving specialized knowledge, requirements of high levels of formal training, tests for competent performance, regulation by professional associations, and licensing by the state. At the same time, many of the precapitalist legitimations of the professions continue, in a transformed way, during this period of capitalist expansion” (Brint, 30-31).