Talcott Parsons has been one of the most influential American sociologists of the postwar period. Bryan Turner's selections from Parsons' work provide a comprehensive overview of his principal contributions and are grouped under the following subdivisions: religion and modern society; life, sex, and death; sociological theory; and American society and the world order.
These selections offer an exposition of the core features of Parsons' sociology and demonstrate his continuing relevance to critical issues today, including globalization, the place of American civilization in the world...
Talcott Parsons has been one of the most influential American sociologists of the postwar period. Bryan Turner's selections from Parsons' work provide...
Never before published, American Society is the product of Talcott Parsons's last major theory-building project. During the 1970s, Parsons worked persistently to fulfill his earlier promise to produce "a general book on American society." The surviving manuscript, completed just a few weeks before his death, is just such a book. Beyond its rich reading of American society, it offers a systematic presentation and major revisions of his previous landmark theoretical positions: the attempt to elaborate a non-nostalgic theory of modernity, to link macro and micro perspectives, to defend the...
Never before published, American Society is the product of Talcott Parsons's last major theory-building project. During the 1970s, Parsons worked pers...
Talcott Parsons Giuseppe Sciortino Jeffrey C. Alexander
Never before published, American Society is the product of Talcott Parsons' last major theoretical project. Completed just a few weeks before his death, this is Parsons' promised 'general book on American society'. It offers a systematic presentation and revision of Parson's landmark theoretical positions on modernity and the possibility of objective sociological knowledge. Even after the passage of many years, American Society imparts a remarkably provocative interpretation of US society and a creative approach to social theory.
Never before published, American Society is the product of Talcott Parsons' last major theoretical project. Completed just a few weeks before his deat...
Der hier erstmals veröffentlichte Briefwechsel der beiden Sozialwissenschaftler läßt in der direkten Konfrontation der beiden Ansätze die Entwicklung einer Theorie sozialen Handelns eindringlich mitvollziehen.
Der hier erstmals veröffentlichte Briefwechsel der beiden Sozialwissenschaftler läßt in der direkten Konfrontation der beiden Ansätze die Entwickl...
2012 Reprint of Original 1947 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. (c)New Foreword Martino Publishing. This volume contains a full and representative statement of Max Weber's sociological theory, drawn from important publications never previously translated. The book opens with a discussion of the analytical methods of sociology and an application of these methodological conclusions to the broadest classification of social relationship and groups. Nearly half the volume is devoted to a further elaboration of this scheme in the...
2012 Reprint of Original 1947 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. (c)New Foreword Mart...
The classic study by Harvard's Talcott Parsons on social systems and the "theory of action," as theorized and applied in a variety of settings, including the medical profession, kinships and role-socialization, psychological relationships, and religious organization. This foundational work is available from Quid Pro Books (with red cover) in a new, high-quality, introduced, and modern format-but nonetheless features embedded page numbers from the original, to make it easy to cite, reference, or assign to classes. This feature also provides continuity with the new eBook editions from Quid...
The classic study by Harvard's Talcott Parsons on social systems and the "theory of action," as theorized and applied in a variety of settings, inc...
1. Vorbemerkung Dieser Band vereinigt eine Reihe von grundlegenden Aufsatzen Tal cott Parsons' zur Theorie der Sozialsysteme. Diese Aufsatze geben zwar nur einen kleinen Ausschnitt aus dem Gesamtwerk von Parsons wieder. Dabei handelt es sich allerdings urn den wichtigsten und grundlegendsten Teil, ohne dessen Kenntnis eine Beurteilung der Theorie Parsons' iiberhaupt nicht moglich ist. Diesem Band wird in Kiirze ein zweiter folgen, der einige Beitrage Parsons zur Theorie der Interaktionsmedien sowie einen Beitrag von Niklas Luhmann zu diesem Thema enthalt (1). Die Herausgabe der beiden Bande...
1. Vorbemerkung Dieser Band vereinigt eine Reihe von grundlegenden Aufsatzen Tal cott Parsons' zur Theorie der Sozialsysteme. Diese Aufsatze geben zwa...
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