DCCC Carr Asserts that Professions Must Offer an Essential Service Discussion
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1. provide your assessment of the occupations represented in the videos. Using Carr’s criteria, to what extent do you think the occupation qualifies as a profession? Sharpen your analysis by comparing and contrasting how well the occupation conforms to Carr’s criteria as compared to one of the traditionally recognized professions: e.g., lawyer, doctor, nurse, certified public accountant, health services management.
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What Is It to Be a Professional?
It is natural to begin with the question of what it is that makes something a profession. Philosopher David Carr has proposed five criteria that, taken together, help distinguish professions from other occupations. These criteria are as follows:
- Professions provide an important public service
- Professions require both theoretical and practical expertise – typically they require both higher level education and a period of training of “apprenticeship”
- Professions have a distinct ethical dimension that typically requires expression in a code of practice
- Professions require organization and regulation for the purposes of recruitment and discipline
- Professional practitioners require a high degree of independent judgment and action for effective practice.
Carr. D. (1999). Professional Education and Professional Ethics. Journal of Applied Philosophy, 16 (1), 33-46.
