The Engineers and the Social SystemCollection of essays concerned with the sociological analysis of the profession of engineer in the context of the society within which it functions - includes papers on the impact of technological change on occupational structure, the recruitment process, the woman worker in engineering, trade unionism, effects of social status origins on career promotion and success, the relationship between family and professional roles. References and statistical tables. |
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HISTORICAL AND OCCUPATIONAL SETTING | 4 |
Edward Gross CHANGE IN TECHNOLOGICAL AND SCIENTIFIC | 17 |
Edwin Layton SCIENCE BUSINESS AND THE AMERICAN | 51 |
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American Society analysis areas associated attitudes Authoritarianism and Prejudice automation behavior blue-collar blue-collar workers career Census Civil Engineers codes cohort collective bargaining concerned Critical path method degree economic educational level employees engi engineer's Engineering Education engineering graduates engineering profession engineering societies engineering students engineering unions ethics factors faculty family life cycle females field founder societies function functionalist grades groups important increase independent variables industry interests involvement Journal knowledge male Mechanical Engineering membership ment neering norms number of engineers obsolescence occupational organization organizational pattern Percent Perrucci persons position prestige problems profes Professional Engineers professional societies programs proportion of engineers Purdue University recruitment relationship religious role salary sample scientific scientists scores selectivity sional social class social origins Sociology success supervisory responsibility Table Taft-Hartley Act technical responsibility technological tion trends United values variables workers York