Contemporary Professions, Challenges and (Re)Construction of Sociology of Work in the Time of Social Transition

The paper deals with the evident need for (re) construction of the sociology of work, which is facing the great challenges of the technological revolution and preparations for the Knowledge Society. Sociology of work as a special sociological discipline meets with new trends and sudden changes in the vortex of social transition. Therefore, it has real needs for upgrading and fundamental change in the focus of research, not so much in terms of substantially determining the nature of work as much as the forms and types of work. The Knowledge Society carries with it many new trends and social changes for which modern sociology of work must be ready. Sociology of work as the heir of industrial sociology in the onset of new social changes needs to date upgrading and adoption of new research experiences, both in methodological and in content terms. The modern knowledge society brings with it new occupations and new types of work and forms of work. Global social trends are not sufficiently represented and monitored in recent practice of research projects in the field of sociology of work in ex-yu territories.