To describe the state of professionalisation midwifery in Belgium, and to formulate recommendations for advancing profession. A descriptive overview maternity care Belgium through an analysis relevant policy academic texts, underpinned by Greenwood’s sociological criteria a profession: (1) own body knowledge, (2) recognised authority, (3) broader community sanctions, (4) code ethics (5) profess...

The aim of this article is to describe and discuss professionalism professionalisation career guidance counselling in Sweden relation different logics professional practice. transformation the labour market educational system over past decades has led an increase importance individual occupational choices development management skills trajectories based on personal interests. Also, agency incre...

Between the 1980s and late 1990s the Czech environmental movement has developed from two official national conservationist groups, which were recognized by the communist regime and which in their activities overlapped with more independent initiatives, into a complex network of diverse groups. Early in this past decade the standing of the environmental movement shifted from champions of democra...

Though there may be millions of professionals worldwide acting as a designer, architect, or engineer in the design, realisation, and implementation of information systems, there is not yet a well established and clearly identified body of knowledge that can be said to define the profession. In this article, we present the idea of developing an information systems engineering body of knowledge. ...

To what extent are we witnessing the application of a more ecologically modernising development process in advanced economies? This paper suggests that we are, and begins to assess what this means for rural development processes and their realities. Such a process requires, it is argued more theoretically engaged rural and environmental social science which attempts to reconstruct conceptual fr...