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- Agevall, Ola, 1970-
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Dragspelskampen : Statsbidragen, bildningsförbunden och det folkliga musicerandet 1947-1960
- 2010
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Dragspelet var under 1900-talets mittersta tredjedel ett självklart inslag i svenskt folkligt musikliv; samtidigt befann sig dragspelsmusiken på nedersta plats i den genre- och instrumenthierarki som definierade såväl den seriösa musiken som det musikpedagogiska landskapet. Under 1940-talet inträffade två händelser som till dels var betingade av denna situation, och som därutöver bidrog till att skärpa den till ett socialt och organisatoriskt konfliktområde. Den ena händelsen var tillkomsten av Hagström Musiks musikskolor. För ett produktionsföretag med tonvikt på dragspelsframställning framträdde det stora intresset för dragspel som en potentiell marknad, vilken begräsandes till sin fulla utsträckning genom frånvaron av utbildningsinstitutioner villiga att undervisa på dragspel. Hagströms Musikskola blev genom sin storskalighet och inriktning ett konkurrerande musikpedagogiskt alternativ, obundet av de genre- och instrumenthierarkier som dominerade övriga aktörer på det musikpedagogiska fältet. Den andra händelsen var införandet av statsbidrag till studiecirklar. Detta följdes en stark expansion av antalet studiecirklar, parat med att en allt ökande andel av dessa cirklar inrättades som musik-, i synnerhet instrumentalcirklar. Bildningsförbundens musikverksamhet hade dittills varit präglade av en musiksyn som uteslöt schlager, dragspel och gitarr. Här betonades folkrörelsernas unisona sång, musikteori och klassisk musik. Men expansionen av antalet och andelen musikcirklar, i förening med intresset för dragspel och med förekomsten av ett musikpedagogiskt alternativ som inte skyggade för det instrumentet, bidrog s.a.s. med hotet om en perforering av bildningsrörelsens rågång mellan dansbana och konsertsal. Detta papper vill bidra med en sociologisk analys av de spänningsfält som uppstod när frågan om god smak dels flyttade in på insidan av bildningsrörelsen, dels blev föremål för skarpa beslut om medelfördelning som berörde såväl staten som det enskilda bildningsförbundet och förhållandet mellan bildningsförbunden.
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- Agevall, Ola, 1970-
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Heinrich Rickert och vetenskapsläran
- 2013
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Ingår i: Kulturvetenskap och naturvetenskap. - Göteborg : Daidalos. - 9789171733955 ; , s. 7-32
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Agevall, Ola, 1970-
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Importance as Impetus or Impediment? : The Case of 19th Century Chartered Surveyors
- 2010
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Ingår i: Svenska nätverkets för professionsforskning konferens.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Importance as impetus or impediment? The case of 19th century chartered surveyors. Definitions and theories professions and professionalization have long been tailored on a set of professions established in England during the 19th century. Chartered surveyors belong in that group, but have not received the attention afforded to other members of the core set – notably medicine, law, theology, and engineering. This paper argues, however, that chartered surveyors present an interesting deviant case in the history of professionalization, on account of their peculiar links to state and market. The argument proceeds in two steps. In a first section, we show how chartered surveyors have entered the profession literature, and how their early emergence is explained in these accounts. Next we focus on a hitherto neglected aspect of that emergence: the peculiar importance of a subset of those tasks that were within chartered surveyors’ jurisdictional turf. We show that chartered surveyors were endowed with the task of determining house values, and how this linked the professional group to the state both (a) via taxation and the control of the local government tax-base and (b) via the electoral system in the period from 1867 to 1918.
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- Agevall, Ola, 1970-
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Land, Law and Money : Profession, state, and knowledge-base in the case of 19th century surveyors
- 2011
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Ingår i: 10th conference of the European Sociological Association, 7th to 10th september 2011, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Definitions and theories professions and professionalization have long been tailored on a set of professions established in England during the 19th century. Chartered surveyors belong in that group, but have not received the attention afforded to other members of the core set. This paper, conceived as a contribution to a theory of the relation between state, knowledge and profession, draws on the historical case of 19th century British surveyors. It analyses the interface between state and profession, in an age when it became increasingly important to “reconcile the principle that the domain of the political must be restricted, with the recognition of the vital political implications of formally private activities.” Surveyors were claimants to a configuration of tasks – centred on the nexus of land, law and money – which made them an important auxiliary to the state apparatus and its technologies. This paper traces, through comparison of British surveyors over time and through juxtaposition with Swedish surveyors, how these tasks, and a corresponding knowledge-base, were shaped by the inclusion of new subspecialties and a complex legal environment.
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- Agevall, Ola, 1970-
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Max Weber
- 2010
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Ingår i: Encyclopedia of political theory. - London : Sage Publications. - 9781412958660 ; , s. 1413-1419
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Agevall, Ola, 1970-, et al.
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On social closure and professional expansion
- 2014
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- One standard assumption in the theory of professions involves the notion of a specific occupational group trying to and partly succeeding in controlling the supply of services in a specific segment of society. Each and every profession is then seen as implicitly or explicitly trying to avoid or control the competitive market model. This is the core of the neo-weberian cynical theory of professions, underscoring social closure and monopolies as prime vehicles of professionalization. Another theoretical strand argues the importance of expansion for the entrenchment and success of professions. This paper explores the relation between professional expansion and social closure, focussing on those mechanisms which are concomitant with expansion and arise as a reaction within the jurisdictional fields of rapidly expanding professions.
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- Agevall, Ola, 1970-, et al.
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Rapidly Growing Professions and Social Closure : Conditions, Consequences and Counter-Movements
- 2013
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Students of the history of professions are likely to observe in their profession(s) of choice one or more major quantitative leaps when the number of practitioners set off in an exponential pattern. The growth of the welfare state after WWII, for instance, gave rise to such patterns both in the established professions and in the then burgeoning semi-professions. Growth rates with similar time-shapes occur in other historical contexts, driven by state commitment, market expansion, or other forces. In this paper we explore the relation between professional expansion and social closure. We focus on those mechanisms which are concomitant with expansion and arise as a reaction within the jurisdictional fields of rapidly expanding professions. But expansion does not only strengthen the position of such professions – it also lead to changes in task structures, in aspirations for more highly valued tasks, and encourages new divisions of labour among occupational categories in the fields, including the new “kids on the block” . We will analyse the effects of professional “take-offs” after WW2 as a key example, although the main focus of the paper is theoretical.
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- Agevall, Ola, 1970-, et al.
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Tensions between academic and vocational demands
- 2014
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Ingår i: From Vocational to Professional Education. - London and New York : Routledge. - 9781138797444 - 9781315757131 ; , s. 26-49
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- One of the most important routes to employment within the social welfare sector worldwide is higher education, which equips students not only with the knowledge for employment, but with the tools to use and build on this knowledge. During the last few decades there has been an academic drift in professional education, especially for many shorter professional programmes. Many of these shorter programmes have left the realm of vocational education to enter higher education. On the one hand, graduates are confronted by an increased demand for research and evidence-based knowledge, and on the other, they are criticised for lacking the knowledge and skills relevant for professional work.From Vocational to Professional Education presents new research into programmes suggesting how best to prepare students for professional work and addresses the challenges facing the education of professionals for social welfare. The book identifies and clarifies key problems, as well as outlining the political and historical context in which they are embedded. Chapters discuss theoretical and analytical ways to address these challenges and suggest recommendations for the further development of education for professional practice.Based on comprehensive longitudinal research data, the book will appeal to policy makers, leaders of higher education, and teachers and researchers involved in programmes qualifying students for professional work.
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- Agevall, Ola, 1970-
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The demands of demand : The professional fate of Swedish music education in the postwar era
- 2010
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Ingår i: XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- If monopoly of recognized skill is anything to go by, then, prima facie, musicians & music teachers are in a poor position to claim professional status. But while laymen cannot be effectively excluded from music making they can be barred from entering certain positions, occupations, & organizations. Swedish music education is an example of a successful monopolization, which later became precarious: the Swedish Royal Academy of Music provided the only educational route to the title of director musices, which in turn was a requisite for admission to a number of positions and occupations. After WWII, a sharply increasing demand for music education created a need for the mass production of music teachers, unsettling the topology of tasks in the field. The aim of this paper is to examine the historical case of Swedish music education, and to theoretically explore the demands raised by a sudden rise in demand upon a precarious monopoly of recognized skill.
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- Agevall, Ola, 1970-, et al.
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The Emergence of the Professional Field of Higher Education in Sweden
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Ingår i: Professions & Professionalism. - : Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus. - 1893-1049. ; 3:2, s. 1-22
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The changing structure of the Swedish university system has shaped its corps of university teachers. The analytical device used to demonstrate this connection is the changing social functions of Swedish universities which serve as the lens through which we understand this change. We argue for five successive and historically added layers of functions: the training of church officials, state functionaries, experts of the industrial society, the welfare professions, and, finally, the mass of employees of the “knowledge society.” Each new function is superimposed on the existing ones, adding to the complexity of tasks, areas of knowledge, and teacher categories in the universities. The position of the university as the arbiter of the highest form of knowledge, the internal differentiation of the field of higher education, and the growth and stratification of its teaching corps are three main building blocks for this history of the Swedish system of higher education.
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- Agevall, Ola, 1970-, et al.
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The professional field of higher education : A longue durée view of institution and corps in the Swedish university system
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The modern field of higher education, and within it the corps of university teachers, takes on a dual significance in the context of the broader professional landscape. On the one hand it constitutes a professional field in its own right. On the other hand, the university is the institution through which the other professions are reproduced. It is with this latter aspect in mind that Harold Perkin characterised the university teacher as a key profession (Perkin, 1969).This paper sets out to map the relation between social function, institution, corps, and cognitive base in the Swedish system of higher education, from the beginnings in 1477 until the present day. We assume (a) that these aspects evolve in different tempi, and (b) that they coalesce into particular configurations. We argue that this framework allows us to address central issues regarding the historical trajectory of higher education inSweden. Through which mechanisms did a medieval institution, catering primarily to ecclesiastical needs, acquire a capacity to accommodate and become the custodian of scientific knowledge? How has the increasing differentiation of the cognitive base affected the composition of the corps? How have shifts in the composition of the corps affected the internal workings of the university? And what role does this play in the formation of university teaching as a key profession?
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- Olofsson, Gunnar, et al.
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What is academic and what is vocational about academic vocational training?
- 2014
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Vocational education makes up an increasing share of higher education. But what shapes the trade-off between academic and vocational elements? When and why does the academisation of professional training result in tensions, and by whom are they felt? Drawing on the case of Sweden, we analyze the process through which vocational training has been pulled into the university system, and show how it has spawned distinct models for aligning academic and vocational elements. These models coexist in the era of vocationalism. By exploring their respective dynamics we can chart how - and where - tensions between academic and vocational elements arise and are managed.
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- Svensson, Louise
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Mobbning i arbete : arbetsorganiseringens inverkan på handlingsutrymmet och mobbningprocessen
- 2010
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of this dissertation is to identify and analyze organizational characteristics and interactional forces within the workplace organization that may affect the mobbing process. The empirical basis comprises 20 semistructured interviews with victims, observers, and bullies. Organizational theory and workplace studies are theoretical influences, as are the concepts of negotiations and outsiders. A central concept is employee discretion: formal, informal, and real discretion. Different parties in the mobbing process are identified and analyzed. It is confirmed that bullies create a negative perception of their victim and try to cause others to share this perception. Collaborators are those whom bullies potentially can recruit, and may include anyone who does not show open support for the victim. People who give open support to the victim are more likely to be bullied themselves, unless they have a strong position in the group. The mobbing process can begin for a large number of reasons. In this study, three main reasons are identified and discussed. First, mobbing can begin because the victim is seen as an outsider. Second, the mobbing process can begin with a change of position. The third main reason for a mobbing process to begin is a confrontation. Mobbing occurs only in contexts where people meet regularly and often and hence can only leave at high cost. Regular interaction and proximity to the same people are the only conditions necessary for mobbing to occur in a context. There are, however, a number of aggravating and mitigating latent characteristics or qualities that have been raised in this dissertation that may affect the mobbing process. These are cooperation and coexistence, existence of a place of retreat, distribution of bureaucratic authority and employer participation, the double belongings within the organization (formal and informal), reorganization and changing workload, and the organization’s relations to stakeholders. The same quality may be an obstacle to mobbing in one situation and facilitate it in another.
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