The file contains documents about the workshop "Control, meaning, structure – Theoretical Perspective in the Social Science" held in Zurich on 20-23/09/1986 organized to identify common ground on new research perspectives in Social Sciences and the first workshop on Knowledge Elites: "Elites and changes in communication systems" held in Paris on 07/05/1987 such as : background notes, reports, list of papers; minutes of the meetings of the workshops coordination committee (07/05/1987 and 21-22/09/1987); notes from the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, circular letter, list of topics and potential participants, correspondence. Letters from the Member Organisations about their potential participation.

Also included the papers: "Essentialist, strategic and temporal analysis of professionalism" and "Professionalisation and its constraints in a social theory" by Rolf Torstendahl; "A framework for the history of the Professions: Prerequisites for a theory" by Konrad Jarausch, Hannes Siegrist and Michael Burrage.

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