From the Commission Parent to the health reforms and the Code des professions, 1961-1974
The Quiet Revolution is often examined from the angle of technocratization, and the notion of a clear continuity between the reforms of the time on the one hand and centralized action in the hands of a few actors on the other. This concept, although cogent, has hardly been the subject of in-depth studies. An analysis of the cohesiveness of a series of reforms affecting the universities, health care and the regulation of professions allows to identify what unifies these reforms, whether conceptually or with regard to concrete actions. Apart from its empirical contribution (in particular to the study of the history of the professions and the origins of the Quebec health system), such an approach presents Quebec as a case study for a sociology of expertise that offers original pointers for a sociology of the State.