Deontology and symbolic capital in Portuguese contemporary advocacy

• Autor(a) principal: Chaves, Miguel
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Sedas Nunes, João
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.31447/AS00032573.2012202.05
• topic: ético-deontologia; advocacia; capital simbólico; hierarquia simbólica; ethic-deontology; advocacy; symbolic capital; symbolic hierarchy; .

Bearing on a study about young people that enter Portuguese advocacy, this article goes back to a topic far from contemporary sociology – professional groups’ ethic-deontology. Its standpoint is that ethic-deontological arguments allow young lawyers embracing the profession through the “liberal prototype” to build up professional aspirations that favor both a “liberal exercise” and a positive evaluation of their professional situation. This gives rise to a will to acquire symbolic capital in a context of young lawyers in major law firms. It is the ethic-deontological “cut” that prevents the latter, which move away from the liberal model, from having an absolute edge.