Déformation professionnelle (English Wikipedia)
The English Wikipedia article on professional-deformation. T2: encyclopedic tertiary reference, the
tier ../QUALITY.md gives Wikipedia for established concepts. It states no publication date, so none is
recorded here.
What the source gives
A short article. It defines the French term as a tendency to view things from the standpoint of one's own profession or expertise rather than a wider one, and says professional training and socialization warp how a person sees the world (citing a 2007 Süddeutsche Zeitung piece). It gives the term's medical use in the 19th century (Morel-Lavallée 1887 on a shoemaker's deformity; Jeanselme 1897), its probable psychological origin with Daniel Warnotte, Merton's 1957 grouping of Warnotte with Veblen and Dewey, a Carrel quotation, Pullum's "nerdview," and four see-also links. The account sits on professional-deformation.
Weaknesses of the source
- Short and sparsely cited. About a dozen lines of substance. No study, sample or effect size.
- The Sorokin claim is flagged. The article offers Pitirim Sorokin as a possible originator and marks it "citation needed." The Russian article states it flatly (professional-deformation-wikipedia-ru). Both are recorded; see the provenance note on professional-deformation and pitirim-sorokin.
- Related concepts are links only. Law of the instrument, bias blind spot, marketing myopia and occupational psychosis appear in "See also" with no text about how they relate, so the article cannot carry a page on any of them. It does not draw links to tunnel vision, idée fixe or groupthink either.
- Secondary on Merton. The Merton page number (p. 198) is the article's citation; the book was not read here.
Entities
pitirim-sorokin is the only paged entity. Warnotte, Merton, Carrel, Veblen, Dewey and Pullum get a name and a line each on the concept page and no page of their own.
Cross-spoke context
No runner-up spoke. Nearest neighbours here: heuristics-and-biases (the article's navbox files it under "Other biases") and burnout-stress-cycle (distinct construct).