Communication publique et association professionnelle : légitimation et normalisation

• Main Author: Dominique Bessières
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Société Française de Sciences de l’Information et de la Communication 2016-09-01
• Series: Revue Française des Sciences de l’Information et de la Communication
• Subjects: public communication; professional association; legitimization; normalization
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/rfsic/2003

The role of professional associations in legitimizing issues, standardization, institutionalization of public communicators is complex. It is a complex process because it is in the long time with various actors. He participated in the recognition of professionalism. How to apprehend a heuristic point of view on it ? What may be the role and importance of the researcher in the analysis of these phenomena? Issues of legitimacy of a professional field aim to strengthen and sustain professional positions, forging socially constructed standardization, with an interactional activism that strengthens over time. The challenge is that the institutionalization of these functions is measured increasingly through a professional, and a search of legitimation of a professional group to consolidate its presence and positions in public organizations.