The Routledge International Handbook of Talcott Parsons Studies

ISBN-13: 9780367336677 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 356 str.

A. Javier Treviño; Helmut Staubmann

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Thematically organised, this volume brings together leading scholars working in the field of ‘Parsonian Studies’ to explore the background of Talcott Parsons’s work, the content of his oeuvre and his subsequent influence in different regions of the world and on particular students.

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1. Introduction: The Scope and Significance of Talcott Parsons Studies;  Part I: Methodology and Philosophy of the Social Sciences; 2. Backstage with the Parsons circle: Charisma, Dialogue, and Dissent in the Formation of a Theory School;  3. Interpreting and Critiquing Talcott Parsons’s Human Condition Paradigm;  4. The Theory of Action and the Analysis of Culture;  5. The "Cognitive Complex" and Globalization: Conclusions for the Future of Higher Education and Research;  6. Parsons/Habermas, Scientific Sociology/Critical Theory, and a Natural Law Theory of Morality;  7. The Analytical Realism of Talcott Parsons: A Sketch of the Theorist as Essay Writer; Part II: Illness, Personality, and Psychoanalysis;  8. Double-Deviance: The Case of Drug Offenders;  9. Towards a Codification of Parsons’s Theory of Psychopathology;  10. Durkheim and Freud: Parsons and the Diaglogue between Sociology and Psychoanalysis;  11. The Sociological Reception of Psychoanalysis within Parsons’s "The Superego and the Theory of Social Systems";  Part III: Economics and Politics; 12. Parsons and Sociological Economics;  13. Parsons, the Symbolic Media, and Weber’s View of Power and Stratification;  14. Norms, Interests, and Desirable Futures: Exploring Contemporary Political Upheavals through the Voluntaristic Theory of Action;  15. Parsons on the International System and Global Society;  16. The Problem of "Race" in Talcott Parsons’s Account of the Citizenship Complex;  17. Parsons and the "Problem" of Ethnicity and Race in Modern Society;  Part IV: Parsons and His Students;  18. A Revolutionary Science and its Carriers: On Talcott Parsons, Robert N. Bellah, and Teacher-Pupil Chains in Scholarly Fields;  19. Talcott Parsons and Harold Garfinkel: The Development of Culture as Interaction;  20. Talcott Parsons and Clifford Geertz: Modernization, Functionalism, and Interpretive Social Science;  21. Niklas Luhmann and Talcott Parsons;  22. Talcott Parsons and Robert K. Merton: A Bibliometric Assessment of their Intellectual Impact;  Part V: Parsons’s Influence in Various Countries and World Regions;  23. Talcott Parsons and the Tradition of Max Weber: Influence on German-Speaking Sociology;  24. Evolutionary Universals in Czechoslovak Society: Talcott Parsons, the Prague Spring, and Structures of Interest;  25. Talcott Parsons in Brazil;  26. Talcott Parsons and Italian Sociology: A Complex and (Perhaps) Surprising Story