The Theory and Scholarship of Talcott Parsons to 1951: A Critical Commentary

Bruce C. Wearne

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A Critical Commentary

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Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: February 2012
Print publication year:: 1990
Online ISBN:: 9780511898297
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511898297

Subjects:: Social Theory, History, Sociology, History of Ideas and Intellectual History

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The most influential sociologist to have emerged in the United States, Talcott Parsons developed a distinctive theoretical synthesis which drew on Weber, Smobart, Durkheim and Marx. He was the moving spirit behind the interdisciplinary Department of Social Relations at Harvard, and he became a central figure in the development of the social sciences in post-war America. Interest in his theories is now reviving, after a period of neglect, and Bruce C. Wearne's study will help a generation of scholars to reassess his work. Drawing on unpublished papers, Wearne describes Parson's religious background and his education and traces the impact of German and other social theory on his development as a scholar. The book concludes with a thorough and fresh reading of his classic work, The Social System.

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A Critical Commentary

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Preface
pp ix-x

Part 1 - Unravelling Talcott Parsons' theoretical development
pp 1-2

1 - Introduction
pp 3-8

Part 2 - Talcott Parsons: the roots of his thought
pp 9-10

2 - Talcott Parsons in relation to the thought of his time
pp 11-18

3 - The Amherst Papers
pp 19-38

Part 3 - The development of theory
pp 39-40

4 - Max Weber and the vision of a unified social science
pp 41-60

5 - The position and prospects of sociology at Harvard in the 1930s
pp 61-75

6 - Convergence and its construction
pp 76-88

Part 4 - The theory
pp 89-90

7 - Conceptualizing The Social System
pp 91-115

8 - Developing The Social System
pp 116-132

9 - Formulating The Social System
pp 133-154

10 - The Social System
pp 155-176

Part 5 - Parsons' theory as it stood at 1951
pp 177-178

11 - Conclusion
pp 179-187

Appendix - Some recent publishing on Talcott Parsons' theory: a bibliographical essay
pp 188-194

List of references
pp 195-202

Index of names
pp 203-205

Index of Parsonian concepts
pp 206-208

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