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The article looks at how Pierre Bourdieu’s fields theory and the theory of professionalism correlate in the analysis of legal communities.

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I demonstrate that even though Pierre Bourdieu criticized the notion of profession and called for it to be abandoned, his views regarding the legal field were in fact very close to the concept of professionalism.

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This page is a summary of: Juridical Field or Legal Profession? Comparison of Bourdieusian Theory and Theory of Professionalism for Studies of Legal Community, Comparative Sociology, October 2016, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/15691330-12341400.
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