Cultural differences between professions can discourage collaboration and make joining up services like health and social care more difficult.
Theoretically, the paper locates boundary-work within the sociology of categories literature, and by making an analytical distinction between boundary-work and social closure, provides a perspective for understanding the cultural dimension of professions.
Four of the teams were trapped by their knowledge in this way, a bias that can be overcome by welcoming participants with a wide range of different professions, cultural backgrounds and experience.
ThEstablishingeport for the entire study is available on the online bibliogoodhic database COBIB.si, at the Ministry of Health of the Republic Slovenia and at the library of the College of Nursing Jesenice.
Regarding purposeful team composition, managers expressed the following needs: (a) tools for assessing the professional qualifications of staff members, (b) help in combining an adequate mix of skills, abilities, and personalities in the team, and (c) instruments for assessing existing teams (included professions, cultural aspects, team size, and knowledge situation).
However, graduate school is when all future scientists formally enter a learning period about the scientific profession and the cultural norms of the profession, often leading aspiring young scientists to adopt the values, attitudes, and professional identities of the scientists who trained them.
Dr. Lam, a Toronto physician, covers that territory, too, but he also takes a pioneering look at the particular situation of the modern immigrant doctor, suspended by strong and often opposing ties to profession, cultural heritage and family, with patients who may seem as alien as if from Mars.
This cat Shawn Levy -- journalist by profession, cultural historian by ambition -- has written this book called "Ready, Steady, Go!" Actually he's pinched the title from that old show on the telly -- that one with the switched-on chick, who said "fab" and "smashing" nearly as much as yours truly.
His book The Epic Rhapsode and His Craft examines how the cultural role and profession of the rhapsode, the ancient Greek performer of Homeric poetry, developed in dialectic tension with the related performance domains of oracular poetry, dramatic acting, and oratorical delivery.
Throughout the book, and especially in today's readings, Drucker and McVarish try to tell a story that balances many changes that are occuring around the same period of time including changes in/to: the technologies of media production; the forms of media being produced; social and cultural life; and business, professions, and economics.
