ISCO SubMajor Group 26 Legal Social And Cultural Professionals
Definition
Legal, Social And Cultural Professionals: Legal, social and cultural professionals conduct research; improve or develop concepts, theories and operational methods; or apply knowledge relating to the law, storage and retrieval of information and artefacts, psychology, social welfare, politics, economics, history, religion, languages, sociology, other social sciences, and arts and entertainment. Competent performance in most occupations in this sub-major group requires skills at the fourth ISCO skill level.
Tasks performed by workers in this sub-major group usually include: conducting research on legal problems; drafting laws and regulations; advising clients on legal cases; pleading and conducting cases in a court of law; presiding over judicial proceedings in a court of law; developing and maintaining library and gallery collections of archives; conducting research, improving or developing concepts, theories and operational methods or applying knowledge relating to the field of social sciences; conceiving, creating and performing in literary and artistic works; interpreting and communicating news, ideas, impressions and facts.
Occupations in this sub-major group are classified into the following minor groups:
261 Legal Professionals
262 Librarians, Archivists and Curators
263 Social and Religious Professionals
264 Authors, Journalists and Linguists
265 Creative and Performing Artists
