Qu’est-ce qu’une norme professionnelle

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Qu’est-ce qu’une norme professionnelle ? C’est à cette périlleuse question que le présent article entend répondre. La première partie de l’article précisera le concept de norme en s’inspirant des perspectives ouvertes par Ludwig Wittgenstein ; la seconde proposera un éclairage sur l’idée de norme professionnelle en montrant qu’il est légitime de distinguer deux grands types de norme au sein d’une profession : les normes techniques et les normes morales.

What is a professional standard? This is the difficult question that this contribution intends to answer. We must first say a few words about the concept of norm because if a professional standard is, as the adjective indicates, of a professional nature; it is first and foremost a norm. Clarification first, welcome clarification because we recognize that there is great confusion about this concept of norm; the terms of requirement, order or prescription often "work" in rhetoric in the human and social sciences as semantic equivalents. That these concepts are deontic concepts - enclosing an injunction to do or not to do, that is understood - but they can not be held for simple synonyms. This article is structured in two main parts. The first part clarifies the concept of norm by taking inspiration from the perspectives opened by Wittgenstein; the second provides insight into the idea of a professional standard by showing that it is legitimate to distinguish two major types of norms within a profession: technical standards and moral standards.