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3 ‘This timely and engaging contribution extends the metaphor approach,
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Professions and Metaphors
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3 Professions and Metaphors: Understanding Professions in Society explores
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Organizing in a mediatized world
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Management and Neoliberalism
Connecting policies and practices
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ANDREW ABBOTT
8 Gender in law and the metaphor of Justice-as-a-Woman:
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9 Engineering the soul: construction and sacrifi ce in the
teaching profession 130
LIXIAN JIN AND MARTIN CORTAZZI
10 Metaphors we help by: socio-cognitive patterns of professionals
in social work 147
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0 Andreas Liljegren is Associate Professor in Social Work in the Department
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formance in London. He has published fi fteen edited and sole-authored
books on professions, health, regulation and research methods with lead-
ing publishers, and many articles and book chapters on these subjects.
Aside from acting as an adviser to professions and governments nation-
ally and internationally, he has won several major research grants and is
on the editorial board of a number of international journals. He is the
current Vice President and former President of the International Socio-
logical Association Research Committee on Professional Groups.
