ABSTRACT
The first professions in Western society originated in the Middle Ages. However, the first professions to which people can more directly relate, such as those of law, science and medicine, comprising professionals such as judges, scientists and physicians, came into being a little later on. This traditional model of professionalism and the irrefutable respected status of professionals continued well into the 1960s and 1970s, which was when it finally came under pressure for different reasons. Schön did not attempt to answer the crisis of the professional by appealing for more evidence or more specialism, nor by claiming a stronger expert status for professionals. On the contrary, Schön suggested the notion of the citizen-professional, based on a horizontal relationship involving a partnership between user and professional. Logic is a way of conceiving and arranging facts and ideas within a specific field and is partly comparable to framing.
