Proving that China has a Profession of Engineering: A Case Study in Operationalizing a Concept Across a Cultural Divide.
This article assumes that a profession is a number of individuals in the same occupation voluntarily organized to earn a living by openly serving a moral ideal in a morally-permissible way (a discipline) beyond what law, market, morality, and public opinion would otherwise require. Our question is w...
| Publicado en: | Science & Engineering Ethics Vol. 23; no. 6; pp. 1581 - 1597 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=126439603&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 126439603 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 13533452 GNI jtl: Science & Engineering Ethics issn: 13533452 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Dec2017 vid: 23 iid: 6 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 126439603 10.1007/s11948-016-9846-2 ppf: 1581 ppct: 16 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 417KB tig: atl: Proving that China has a Profession of Engineering: A Case Study in Operationalizing a Concept Across a Cultural Divide. aug: au: Davis, Michael Zhang, Hengli affil: Illinois Institute of Technology , Chicago USA Beijing Institute of Technology , Beijing China su: Engineering Occupations Public opinion Ethics Culture China sug: subj: China Engineering Occupations Public opinion Ethics Culture keyword: Iseda Profession Survey ab: This article assumes that a profession is a number of individuals in the same occupation voluntarily organized to earn a living by openly serving a moral ideal in a morally-permissible way (a discipline) beyond what law, market, morality, and public opinion would otherwise require. Our question is whether the concept of profession (so defined) may have a far wider range than the term, so that, for example, pointing out that a certain language lacks a word for 'profession' in our sense, is not enough to show that those who speak the language also lack the concept. We believe the survey of 71 Chinese reported here begins to answer that question. This article has four parts. The first describes who was interviewed, how, when, and so on. The second describes some important features of the survey's questions, explaining how the questions track the concept of profession. The third part reports and interprets the results relevant to our question. The forth defends a tentative answer to the question with which we began-arguing the survey supports the claim that China has a profession of engineering. This article should serve as a 'proof of concept', that is, a model for similar studies around the world both of engineering and of other occupations thought to be professions. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Science & Engineering Ethics is a copyright of Springer, 2017. All Rights Reserved. item: Science & Engineering Ethics holder: Springer Nature dt: @attributes: year: 2017 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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