How Formality Works: The Case of Environmental Professionals | Zendy

Harald A. Mieg | Zendy; Steffen de Sombre | Zendy; Matthias Andreas Näf | Zendy

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How Formality Works: The Case of Environmental Professionals

Author(s) -

Harald A. Mieg,

Steffen de Sombre,

Matthias Andreas Näf

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

professions and professionalism

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.31

H-Index - 6

ISSN - 1893-1049

DOI - 10.7577/pp.564

Subject(s) - formality , abstraction , field (mathematics) , competition (biology) , social capital , engineering ethics , sociology , computer science , epistemology , political science , social science , ecology , engineering , law , philosophy , mathematics , pure mathematics , biology

This article provides an overview of our research on environmental professionals in Switzerland over the last twenty years. From the beginning, we were interested in studying how formality functions in this field and how abstraction drives jurisdictional change We started with the goal of examining professsionalization, i.e., the question of whether a new environmental profession arises. Our findings suggest this has not yet occurred; instead, we observe increased scientification of the field, underlining the role of science-based formalization (providing social capital in the form of a science-based language). We analyze a survey on environmental professionals and show how abstraction works: reduction and formalization as two distinct forms of abstraction are specifically related to inter- and intra-professional competition.

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