Professional Practice As a Site of Struggle

Abstract

In this chapter I explain the themes that emerged in the analysis of the diaries. In doing so I make explicit links to the social-theoretical resources introduced in Chapter 3 and show how these connections extend the account of the discourse of commercialization. The chapter concludes by drawing together the argument developed through the previous two chapters. However, there remains the need to trace interdiscursive relations between the diarists’ accounts of their practices and how these are constructed in the brochures and to elaborate these relationships from the social/institutional perspective. These questions are addressed in Chapters 5 and 6.