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Talcott Parsons's Books
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Essays in Sociological TheoryTalcott Parsons needs little introduction to anyone acquainted with the literature of sociology. Few men have dominated their fields so much as Dr....Read More
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Social Structure & PersonA Collection of essays which studies the theoretical problem of relationships between social structure and personality, and how these different...Read More
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Chronicle of Higher Education, March 27, 2012
...on the firm ground of empirical data and solid theory, avoiding the morass of impenetrable verbiage (á la Talcott Parsons) and post-modernist nonsense (á la just about everyone in the 1980s and 90s). He was also founder, publisher and, for a long...
Atlantic Monthly, February 23, 2012
...that the disease concept supplied a quasi-medical explanation for alcoholism it also harbored some of the implications of Talcott Parsons' famous "sick role" for the alcoholic. The doctor-patient relationship, as Parsons memorably pointed out, held role...
Guernica Magazine, September 14, 2011
...office where I could be the person who dealt with the authors. And the authors were people like Talcott Parsons and Erving Goffman. The Free Press was publishing Weber and Durkheim. Nobody else was. Cornel West: Parsons was translating Weber. Frances Fox...
