ISBN:
9781000475180
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (368 pages)
Series Statement:
Routledge International Handbooks Ser.
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DDC:
301.092 B
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- 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. Toward a codification of Parsons's theory of psychopathology -- 10. Durkheim and freud: Parsons and the dialogue between sociology and psychoanalysis -- 11. The sociological reception of psychoanalysis in 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.
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