professions

Examples of professions in the following topics:

• Professional Interest Groups

  • Professional interest groups represent the economic interests for members of various professions including doctors, engineers, and lawyers.

• Towards a Systematic Conceptualization of Politics

  • Unfortunately, political scientists and lawyers—the two main professions concerned with analyzing government—have not identified a small set of simple, core concepts whose permutations and combinations get to the essence of the matter.
  • Instead, both professions are blessed (or cursed!

• Women in the Workplace

  • Beginning in the 1970s, women began attending colleges and graduate schools in large numbers and entering professions like law, medicine, and business.

• The Framers of the Constitution

  • They did not differ dramatically from the Loyalists, except the delegates were generally younger in their professions.
  • Other professions included merchants, manufacturers, shippers, land speculators, bankers or financiers, three physicians, a minister, and several small farmers.

• Regents of the University of California v. Bakke

  • UC Davis maintained that the program had originally been developed to 1) reduce the historic deficit of traditionally disfavored minorities in medical schools and the medical profession, 2) counter the effects of societal discrimination, 3) increase the number of physicians who will practice in under served communities, and 4) obtain the educational benefits that flow from a racially diverse student body.

• Forms of Disagreement

  • Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power.

• Regulating Congressional Lobbyists

  • Lobbyists sometimes support rules requiring greater transparency and disclosure: "Our profession is at a critical point where we can either embrace the constructive changes and reforms by Congress or we can seek out loopholes and continue the slippery slide into history along side the ranks of snake oil salesmen."

• The Women's Rights Movement

  • At a time when mainstream women were making job gains in professions, the military, the media, and sports in large part because of second-wave feminist advocacy, second-wave feminism also focused on a battle against violence with proposals for marital rape laws, establishment of rape crisis and battered women's shelters, and changes in custody and divorce law.