Workshop on Money Professionals: New questions for the sociology of the professions?
On the 28th of June 2022, we organised the event Money Professionals: New questions for the sociology of the professions? at the Centre for the Sociology of Organisation at Sciences Po Paris. In addition to the participation of four of us from TAXLAW, 10 social scientists from France joined us.
The organisation of the workshop was part of our aim of building a research network of social scientists who study professions working within the fields of tax, economy, law, and finance in different contexts.
Even though there are social scientists who study issues related to tax, most have focused on international tax law, tax shelters and so forth. As such, there are no specific research networks regarding national regulative tax practices. Therefore, we are in the process of building a research community ourselves, and this workshop was the starting shot of the process.
During the workshop, five of the participants presented their research on different aspects of money professionals. From our team, Jérôme Pélisse presented a paper on how legal consciousness studies can be applied to the study of money professionals, and Marte Mangset, Corentin Durand and Helle Dyrendahl Staven introduced the TAXLAW project and presented some initial findings from our interviews with tax law professionals in France and Norway.
We are looking forward to continuing to build this research network.