Abstract
THE COMPLICATED affairs of the medical world are of increasing interest to sociologists, particularly to those who study medical education. Sociologists have, during the last decade and a half, conducted numerous and varied studies of the training and preparation of physicians. The object of this paper is to report pertinent current research as well as to present briefly the specific concerns and theoretical predilections of two approaches which influence it in one way or another. The discussion which follows will focus on the rationale of the Columbia University studies and those conducted in the Chicago tradition, each of which is making a unique contribution to the sociology of medical education. Gouldner states the differences between the strategies:
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