208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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This account of Talcott Parsons’s work clarifies his basic concepts and sets out their correlation. Dr Menzies believes that the philosophy of science working within the confines of the analytic-synthetic distinction tends to provide a rigid, static and sterile account of theories. He presents a more dynamic account of the scientific enterprise in order to come to grips with the amorphous nature... Read more
1. The Framework for Analysing Parsons 2. Parsons’s Voluntaristic Theory 3. Tying Man to Society: The Partially Social Image of Man 4. The Social Image of Man 5. The Patterning of Meaning: Pattern Variables and Functional Dimensions 6. Socialization 7. Social Order: A Problem Solved Too Well 8. Open Social Systems Theory or Structural-Functionalism 9. Some Analyses Using Both the Action and Systems Programmes 10. Conclusion
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Menzies, Ken
