A Young Man’s Game

Corbett, Christianne

doi:10.4324/9781351052467-12

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“…They also increasingly find themselves in strong competition for scarce prestigious jobs. In some environments younger workers may be favouredfor instance in high tech firms or large law firms (Corbett, 2019;Kay, 2019). However, even when job opportunities are available, young workers may struggle to adjust to the physical, mental, and emotional demands of professional careers (Adams, 2019;Cottingham & Dill, 2019).…”

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“…Older professionals can, for example, be stereotyped as possessing outdated skills, and therefore to be less effective at their jobs (Scheuer & Mills, 2017). This appears especially salient in technology and computing jobs where older workers-men and women-have more negative experiences compared to their younger colleagues (Corbett, 2019). Stereotypes vary across profession.…”

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This paper outlines a neo-Weberian approach to state-sponsored social closure in professional formation. Despite its advantages, state decision-making is not typically well-defined or examined in neo-Weberian analyses. Neo-Weberianism is differentiated from Max Weber's own work on social action and rationality, which generally provides a more subtle interpretation of state socio-political processes. The paper explores how policy formation can be more incisively analyzed inside the black box of state decision-making from a Weberian perspective. This is exemplified by the passage of the 1858 Medical Act in the United Kingdom establishing the statesupported medical profession. While further work is necessary in filling in the black box, this paper charts an important future path for neo-Weberian analyses of professions, and their relationship with the state.

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