Open AccessThe Symbolic Stakes of an Academic Degree. Reconfigurations of Power Relationships and New Tensions Within the Nursing Profession
Author(s) -
Kevin Toffel
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
swiss journal of sociology/schweizerische zeitschrift für soziologie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.204
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 2297-8348
pISSN - 0379-3664
DOI - 10.2478/sjs-2020-0004
Subject(s) - power (physics) , degree (music) , medical profession , the symbolic , sociology , nursing , psychology , medical education , medicine , psychoanalysis , physics , quantum mechanics , acoustics
The opening in 2009 at the University of Lausanne of a master’s degree program marked a new stage in the history of the profession in Switzerland. With new resources, the emergence of these nurses disrupting professional relationships, both with respect to doctors as well as within the profession. After having presented the issues of making knowledge more academic and more scientific in every sense, we show some effects of this diploma, in particular the attempt of redefinition of the practical and symbolic roles to which it gives rise.