1st Edition
Modern Reconstruction of Classical Thought: Talcott Parsons
By Jeffrey Alexander
Copyright 1983
588 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
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In this volume the author maintains that sociology must learn to combine the insights of both Durkheim and Marx and that it can only do so on the presuppositional ground that Weber set forth. Alexander maintains that the idealist and materialist traditions must be transformed into analytic dimensions of multidimensional and synthetic theory. This volume focusses on the writing of Talcott Parsons,... Read more
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