Professionalization and institutionalization of history
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Professionalization of history
During the process of the professionalization of history, being a historian became not only an occupation but a profession. Professionalization of history is the process of acquiring the following characteristics of profession for occupation of historian:
- prolonged training in definable body of knowledge,
- a credential system,
- a code of ethics,
- a self-government
- legislated access to particular labour market.
This process results with privileged access to financial and social rewards for its members.
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Institutionalization of history
The term institutionalisation is widely used in social theory to refer to the process of embedding something (for example a concept, a social role, a particular value or mode of behaviour) within an organisation, social system, or society as a whole.