Professional Community Functioning: Formation Mechanisms, Participants’ Motivation, Explanation Model

Student: Rozum Sergey

Educational Programme: Comparative Social Research (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2018

In this study, the author reviews the classical approaches to the sociology of the professions. Using the theory lenses technique, the author tries to describe and explain the community or User Experience specialist, as the forming professional community. The author uses the UX Mastery online community case to explain the duality of the UX profession.

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