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Newsmen's Professionalization: Some Methodological Problems

F Lately, the theme of professionalization and professionalism has become quite common in the sociology of occupations,' especially the professionalization of occupations in the media world.2 This is a most welcome development, for several reasons. A better grasp of journalistic professionalism will enhance our understanding of the general functioning of media organizations and their output. The concepts of professionalization and professionalism also offer excellent opportunities for communication researchers to tie in their work with that of other social scientists. The aim of this paper is to discuss some methodological problems in the study of professionalism among mass media personnel. It will be shown that the operationalization of professionalism used by most researchers in the area is not above discussion. An alternative operationalization, with better support in existing theory, yields quite different results when compared to the independent variable of education. When the relationship with the dependent variable of mobility is investigated, it turns out that this relationship is contingent on the sur-