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Theory of Action (Routledge Revivals) Towards a New Synthesis Going Beyond Parsons
By Richard Münch
Copyright 2011
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Modern sociology owes its existence and the progress it has made to the integration of differing kinds of orientations. In this work, first published 1987, Professor Richard Münch sets out to reformulate the theory of action, a notion central to sociology and one to which all schools of thought within sociology have contributed. He gives an exposition of the voluntaristic theory of action as found... Read more
Introduction: The rational reconstruction of the theory of action 1. The structure of the Kantian core 2. The continuity of the development 3. From positivism and idealism to the voluntaristic theory of action Concluding considerations: 'Dialectically' replacing posivitism and idaelism with the voluntaristic theory of action
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Richard Münch
