Exploring the Professional Status of Software Work in India

As project management is more often executed in India and controlled by Indian firms, entry to software work has become more dependent on market demand, and less on qualification in a software-related discipline. The attributes approach fails to answer why professionals possess a high amount of power and social status in society and why they are largely free from the evaluation of the public. The power approach views a profession as a set of role relationships between experts and clients. We conclude that software work in India is properly categorized as an occupation.