180 Pages
by
Routledge
180 Pages
by
Routledge
180 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book analyzes Talcott Parsons' largest-scale effort to overcome the relativism and subjectivism of the social sciences. Harold J. Bershady sets forth Parsons' version of the characteristics desirable for social knowledge, showing that Parsons deems the relativistic and subjectivistic arguments as powerful challenges to the validity of social knowledge. Bershady maintains that all Parsons'... Read more
AcknowledgementsIntroduction to the Transaction Edition1 Introduction and Setting2 The First Epistemological Problems3 The Relativity of Ideal-Types4 The First Solution of the Epistemological Problems5 Metaphysical Interlude6 The Functional'Solution' of the Scientific and Epistemological Problems7 Of Thinking and Explaining the Composition of Large-Scale Societies and Their Evolution8 Conclusion: On Unification of Social KnowledgeIndex
Biography
Harold J. Bershady
