1st Edition
American Society Toward a Theory of Societal Community
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Routledge
542 Pages
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Routledge
537 Pages
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Routledge
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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... Read more
Preface, by Giuseppe Sciortino, Foreword, by Jeffrey C. Alexander, Introduction: The Action of Social Structure, by Giuseppe Sciortino, Chapter 1 Introduction, Chapter 2 The Societal Community and Its Environments, Chapter 3 Some Highlights of the Historical Background, Chapter 4 Values and Other Structural Features of the Societal Community, Chapter 5 Some Substantive Structures of the Emerging Societal Community, Chapter 6 Social Class as Axis of Cleavage-Integration, Chapter 7 The Gemeinschaft Complex in American Society I: Ethnicity, Chapter 8 The Gemeinschaft Complex II: Kinship, Religion, Style of Life, Education, Chapter 9 Communication and Collective Decision Making: The Mass Media and the Political Process (Three Fragments), Chapter 10 Individuality and Institutionalized Individualism, Notes, Bibliography, Index, About the Editor
Biography
Parsons, Talcott; Sciortino, Giuseppe
“This book demonstrates how Parsons attempted to develop a framework applicable to concrete situations. … [American Society] helps remind readers how Parsonian structural functional can be used to illuminate how social crisis can be overcome. Recommended.”
—CHOICE
