| Description |
xiii, 349 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Note |
"Chapters ... written for a conference held on December 6 to 7, 2002, at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York City, to mark the hundredth anniversary of the birth of ... Talcott Parsons"--P. xi. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Parson's economic sociology and the development of economic sociology / Neil J. Smelser -- Looming catastrophe: how and why "law and economics" undermines fiduciary duties in corporate law / Mark Gould -- Social order as communication: Parson's theory on the move from moral consensus to trust / Harald Wenzel -- Affect in social life / Harold J. Bershady -- Contradictions in the societal community: the promise and disappointment of Parson's concept / Jeffrey C. Alexander -- How different can we be? Parsons's societal community, pluralism, and the multicultural debate / Giuseppe Sciortino -- God, nation, and self in America: some tensions between Parsons and Bellah / Robert N. Bellah -- Modernity and its endless discontents / Donald N. Levine -- Culture as a subsystem of action: autonomous and heteronomous functions / Helmut Staubmann -- Rationalists, fetishists, and art lovers: action theory and the comparative analysis of high cultural institutions / Jeremy Tanner -- Weberian Talcott Parsons: sociological theory in three decades of American history / Uta Gerhardt -- From Amherst to Heidelberg: on the origins of Parsons's conception of culture / Charles Camic -- Parsons and the human condition / Edward A. Tiryakian -- What do American bioethics and Medecins Sans Frontieres have in common? Relevance of Talcott Parsons's theory of universalism, particularism, and modernity / Renee C. Fox -- "Social evolution" in the light of the human-condition paradigm / Victor M. Lidz. |
| Subject |
Social action.
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Sociology.
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Parsons, Talcott, 1902-1979.
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| Added Author |
Parsons, Talcott, 1902-1979
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Fox, Renee C. (Renee Claire), 1928-2020.
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Lidz, Victor M.
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Bershady, Harold J.
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| ISBN |
0871542692 |
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9780871542694 |
| Standard No. |
IG# 0871542692 |
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YDXCP 2246480 |
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NZ1 9194364 |
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