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) Parsons, Talcott. The Columbia Encyclopedia,
1902-79, American sociologist, b. Colorado Springs, Colo., educated at Amherst College (B.A., 1924), London School of Economics, and Univ. of Heidelberg...2) functionalism, in anthropology and sociology. The Columbia Encyclopedia,
...of the entire social system. Functionalism was supported in the United States by sociologist Talcott Parsons, who introduced the notion that there were stable structural...3) sociology. The Columbia Encyclopedia,
...include Ralf Dahrendorf and C. Wright Mills. Structural-functional theory, developed by Talcott Parsons and advanced by Robert Merton, assumes that large social systems...
The Structure of Social Action (1937)
The Social System (1951)
Structure and Process in Modern Societies (1960)
Social Structure and Personality (1964)
Societies (1966)
Sociological Theory and Modern Society (1967)
Politics and Social Structure (1969).
Structure of Social Action, Talcott Parsons, 1937
See studies by W. C. Mitchell (1967), H. Turk and R. L. Simpson, ed. (1971), and J. Alexander (1984).
CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY SSR Prelim Summary Archive
Parsons, Talcott Talcott
Parsons on Institutions and Social Evolution: Selected Writings. Edited by
Leon R. Mayhew. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982, chs. 1-5 (early
writings), ch. 6 ('The Pattern Variables'), ch. 7 ('Integration and
Institutionalization'), ch. 9 ('Illness and the Role of the Physician'), ch. 15
('On the Concept of Influence'), ch. 19 ('Evolutionary Universals in Society').
_________. Essays in Sociological Theory. Glencoe IL; Free Press, 1954, ch. 2 ('The
Professions and Social Structure'), ch. 5 ('Age
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_________. ''Suggestions
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_________. 'An
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