Professionalism as a sociocultural phenomenon in the context of the modern society transformation

Abstract

The relevance of the problem «professionalism as a sociocultural phenomenon»is due to changes in the labor market, unpredictability and dynamism of regulatory transformations caused by the motivation decrease among specialists. Factors of forming professionalism at personal, cultural and social levels are considered. In the Weber model framework, the leading factors to form professionalism are a high level of responsibility to society and the profession perception as a vocation. It is proved that the differentiation of the concepts «specialist» and «professional» as stages of professional growth is conditioned by the level of forming creative abilities to elaborate new solutions and self-development motivation. The author concludes that in»quasi-market»conditions, the achievement of professional status by an individual within the Weber model framework, which assumes the unity of the personal and social, is a consequence of certain personal and socio-cultural attitudes, rather than a reflection of expected financial benefits. The analysis of professionalism as a sociocultural phenomenon in the context of social transformations has shown that in addition to factors determined by the individual»s personal qualities, one of the most important is the model of administration in the society (state). More precisely, the structure-forming activity of public administration, which consists in creating conditions to develop professionals and form their motivation for self- realization.