1st Edition
Talcott Parsons and the Conceptual Dilemma (RLE Social Theory)
By Hans Adriaansens
Copyright 1980
210 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
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This systematic analysis of the nature and development of Talcott Parson’s theory of action offers first an introduction to the conceptual paradigm upon which this theory is based – an introduction, that is, which will make Parson’s writing more easily accessible. Second, the book gives an explanation of the development which the action theory has undergone during the half-century of Parson’s... Read more
1. The General and Analytical Character of Theory: Parson’s Epistemological Premise 2. The Voluntaristic Pretension: Parsons’s Methodological Premise 3. The Structural-Functional Version of the Action Theory: The First Attempt at Conceptualization 4. The Instability of the Structural-Functional Version of the Action Theory 5. The New Voluntaristic Action Theory 6. Testing the Theory Against its Premises
Biography
Adriaansens, Hans
