caa a22 4500 386313083 CHVBK 20180307111555.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198807 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0010417500015371 doi S0010417500015371 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0010417500015371 Gispen C. W. R. University of Mississippi German Engineers and American Social Theory: Historical Perspectives on Professionalization [Elektronische Daten] [C. W. R. Gispen] When historians turn to the social sciences for help with the task of ordering their data or making their sources speak more clearly, the results can be rewarding in unexpected ways. So it is if one applies the twin concepts profession and professionalization to the German context-in particular, to the history of German engineers in the nineteenth century. At first sight, an idea like the "professionalization of the German engineers” seems straightforward enough. In tandem with the growth of Germany's science-based industries and unparalleled system of technical education, it suggests the emergence of the men who occupied the critical positions in these institutions and embodied technological progress. A notion such as the "rise of the German engineering profession,” therefore, stirs visions of a grand metamorphosis, in which the land of poets and thinkers—and of Junkers, bureaucrats, and mandarins—turned into the world of Siemens, Porsche, Mannesmann, Bosch, Diesel, Daimler-Benz, etc. Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1988 Comparative Studies in Society and History Cambridge University Press 30/3(1988-07), 550-574 0010-4175 30:3<550 1988 30 CSS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417500015371 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417500015371 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Gispen C. W. R. University of Mississippi NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Comparative Studies in Society and History Cambridge University Press 30/3(1988-07), 550-574 0010-4175 30:3<550 1988 30 CSS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence SWISSBIB 224338862 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge