Ideology and Social Knowledge

ISBN-13: 9781138525672 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 180 str.

Harold J. Bershady

Opis

This book analyzes Talcott Parsons' largest-scale effort to overcome the relativism and subjectivism of the social sciences

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

Introduction to the Transaction Edition

1 Introduction and Setting
2 The First Epistemological Problems
3 The Relativity of Ideal-Types
4 The First Solution of the Epistemological Problems
5 Metaphysical Interlude
6 The Functional'Solution' of the Scientific and Epistemological Problems
7 Of Thinking and Explaining the Composition of Large-Scale Societies and Their Evolution
8 Conclusion: On Unification of Social Knowledge

Index

O autorze

Harold J. Bershady