Theory of Action (Routledge Revivals): Towards a New Synthesis Going Beyond Parsons

ISBN-13: 9780415615617 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 268 str.

Richard Münch

Opis

Modern sociology owes its existence and the progress it has made to the integration of differing kinds of orientations. In this work, first published 1987, Professor Richard Munch sets out to reformulate the theory of action, a notion central to sociology and one to which all schools of thought within sociology have contributed. He gives an exposition of the voluntaristic theory of action as found in Talcott Parson's work, reconstructing and extending Parson's theory from the perspective of the present-day level of development. In this way he both integrates opposing orientations to action theory and presents the voluntaristic theory of action in a readable and teachable from.

Spis treści

Introduction: The rational reconstruction of the theory of action  1. The structure of the Kantian core  2. The continuity of the development  3. From positivism and idealism to the voluntaristic theory of action  Concluding considerations: 'Dialectically' replacing posivitism and idaelism with the voluntaristic theory of action

O autorze

Richard Münch