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The Law Schools and the New Profession of Social Technician
Author(s) -
Beutel Frederick K.
Publication year - 1942
Publication title -
american journal of economics and sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.199
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1536-7150
pISSN - 0002-9246
DOI - 10.1111/j.1536-7150.1942.tb00451.x
Subject(s) - technician , citation , sociology , law , library science , political science , computer science
RECENTLY THERE HAS BEEN considerable discussion of the fact that there is emerging all over the world a new profession of management of both private and public business. These persons neither own the business which they operate nor win the elections to public office. Nevertheless, they are increasingly taking over the control of the operation of our social machinery because it is too complicated to be run by amateurs, whether they be stockholders or voters.' In the past much of this technical work of managing complicated social affairs has been done by legally trained personnel, and there are those who still believe that the law schools have the key for entrance into this new profession. Others feel that the present legal training is wholly beside the point and can offer nothing of value toward the development of this new profession. It might be worthwhile to examine briefly the qualifications of our American law schools as centers for training the newly emerging profession of managers, or social technicians.