Od profesjonalistów do ekspertów: przemiany zawodów specjalistycznych
From Professionals to Experts: the Transformations of the Specialist Professions

Summary/Abstract: The article addresses the transformations of professions and their social causes. These causes have been revealed on the basis of relevant literature published since the 1980s. The aim of the article is a systematization of the main threads of discussion and its introduction into the Polish context. The complex processes, identified by the authors, lead to the disappearance of a public trust professionalism and to the emergence of an expert knowledge professionalism. The contemporary professionalism can hardly be described in the categories that have been used until now. The authors indicate the internal differentiation of the specialist professions and distinguish the categories of an “expert” and a “new professional”. The transformations in the sphere of professionalism have been illustrated by the case of evaluation as a new specialist profession.

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