| Engineers, doctors and lawyers in Arab countries have ben central actors in social changes, as they were associated with development, reconstruction and modernization projects. And yet, though they offer an essential opening to understanding Arab societies, we know little about these professions and about the transformations that have affected them in the last half-century. The articles published in this issue cannot of course be considered as the portrait of the situation in the Arab world as a whole, nor of the current state of sociological research which, in any case, is very uneven from one country to another. Looking at some of the professions, each of these articles broach on a particular aspect, the issue of graduate professionals' position on the labour parket, how this position is evolving, the connections with institutions and the State. Some fall explicitly within the scope of a sociology of professional groups, others more so within a sociology of employment. By gathering these articles together, our objective was to demonstrate how a look at non-Western societies can contribute to sociological reflection. |
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