ABSTRACT

Much the same comment could be made about divisions maintained within each o f these disciplines, and there are interesting texts that challenge the maintenance of such splits. For example: (1) in sociology, Delamont and Atkinson (1990) complained o f a separation in development of, and a mutual

lack o f communication between, work in the sociology of the professions and the sociology o f knowledge, despite assumptions underlying much work in the sociology o f the professions that professionals themselves were defined by the nature o f the ‘formal knowledge’ in which they were supposedly ‘learned’ .