Digital Transformation and the Fate of Professions: A Sociological Reading of Professional Mobility and Strategies for Job Preservation
摘要
Just as digital transformation affects the systems of productive and service-based economic institutions; it also influences this transformation as a part of the holistic social transformation of society, being both a cause and a result of it. The impact of digital transformation on society varies according to the social time to which the society belongs. This is because there are three major cleavages related to artificial intelligence). Despite the differences between these three cleavages, digital transformation has caused a change in the concept of professions and work more broadly. In sociological analysis, digital transformation is considered an analytical framework that causes some structures to adapt and others to disappear, resulting in the emergence of new jobs and the disappearance of others. This was starkly observed after the Corona crisis, which is also considered a structural transformation in the societal process. However, the real problem here is to examine the effectiveness of strategies used by workers/employees to preserve their jobs/professions. This strategy is part of what is called professional mobility, where individuals update and synchronize their knowledge and digital capital to survive and, at the same time, achieve a better position in comparison to the accelerating pace of technological transformation and the limited capabilities they possess. Objective: