Disciplined Minds A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-Battering System That Shapes Their Lives

Name: Disciplined Minds A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-Battering System That Shapes Their Lives
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ISBN: 9780742516854

ISBN-10: 0742516857

ISBN-13: 9780742516854

Edition: 2001

Authors: Jeff Schmidt

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This book details the battle one must fight to be an independent thinker, showing how an honest reassessment of what it means to be a professional in today's corporate society can be remarkably liberating. Poignant examples from the world of work reveal the workplace as a battleground for the very identity of the individual. Schmidt contends that professional work is inherently political--that the unstated duty of professionals is to maintain strict ideological discipline. Career dissatisfaction evolves as workers lose control over the political component of their creative work. After reading this insightful book, no one who works for a living will ever think the same way about their job.…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/4/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.09" wide x 9.19" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Professionals



Timid Professionals


Trusted Cadre


Hidden Curriculum


Overview



Ideological Discipline


The Politics of Not Getting Political


The Expert's Opinion


When Does a Job Demand a Professional?


Working Between the Lines



Insiders, Guests and Crashers


Jurors: Professionals for a Week


Inadvertent Satirists


"Real World" Credentials



Assignable Curiosity


Directing the Professor's Curiosity


A Government Agency Is a Government Agency



The Social Significance Concealment Game


Condensed Matter Physics


Plasma Physics


It Takes a Professional



The Division of Labor


Weakening the Individual



Selection



Opportunity


Dreams of Escape


Opportunity to Escape


A Life-and-Death Matter


Ugly Scene at the Narrow Gate


A Strategy for Understanding


Selection as a Political Process


The Instrument of Selection



Narrowing the Political Spectrum


Before the Narrowing


Metamorphosis and Unnatural Selection


Admission


Courses


Qualification


Research


Employment



The Primacy of Attitude


The Convergence of Prejudgment and Score



Examining the Examination


Imposing a Social Framework


Turning Tricks


Time Pressure and Problem Fragments


Boredom and Endurance


Technical Details, Naked Formulas and "Usefulness"


The Elitist's Advantage



Gratuitous Bias


Bias--Necessary and Unnecessary, Hidden and Superficial


Freudian Slips



"Neutral" Voices



Subordination


Professionalism


Conflicts with Employers


Preprofessionals



Resistance



Resisting Indoctrination


Brainwashing and Resistance



How to Survive Professional Training with Your Values Intact


Prisoner of War Resistance


Confrontation or Obliteration


My Own Case


Individual Violence



Now or Never


Index


About the Author