ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the complex mobilization and organization of the elements by different types of professional projects. It is time now to turn once again from historical diversity to the underlying structural processes and structural effects, which give a unified and broader meaning to this diversity. The chapter highlights the requirements imposed upon this project by the market orientation: the necessary homogenization of the intangible goods according to relatively universalistic standards could only be achieved at the level of training. It attempts to state the differences with more structural precision, following the terms of Marx's analysis of the commodity form. The chapter explores the ideological trunk from which the professional branch derives and considers what functions the ideology of profession performs within the social division of labor, with regard to the specific groups of workers who claim professional status.
