Ideal Types of Professional Futures Engineers of Human Souls Faceless Technocrats Merchants of Morality Each of these ideal types (theoretical models/thought experiments) provides a very different reading of how professions and professionals can most effectively respond to the increasingly questioning, not to say hostile, political and cultural environment in which they find themselves They also provide very different assessments of the nature of the professional futures that realistically seem to be on offer to accredited experts in a world where specialist services are more freely available than ever before but only come at a price.
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