Reflections on the Social Construction of the Contemporary Medical Profession and Career: A Bourdieusian Approach

This study aims to highlight the importance of interdisciplinarity in career studies. Bibliographical research was carried out for that, resulting in the analysis corpus. As contributions to the studies of professions and careers stand out: (a) the identification of the many correlations between the various social actors who take part in the field and contribute to the social construction of the profession and medical career; (b) the finding of the importance of the state's role in regulating the labor market; (c) the relationship of historical facts with the contemporary context of the medical profession; (d) the analytical possibilities obtained in the studies of professions and careers using the theory of symbolic fields of the Bourdieusian approach; and (e) to highlight the contributions from the discipline of Sociology