The Anthem companion to Talcott Parsons /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London, UK ; New York, NY, USA :
Anthem Press,
2016.
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| Series: | Anthem companions to sociology.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Front Matter; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Chapters; Introduction ; Part I: Political and Humanist Concerns; Chapter One: Fighting the Deadly Enemy of Democracy: Sociology against National Socialism; Chapter Two: Parsons's Critique of the Power Elite Thesis: Foundations for a Comprehensive Theory of Power; Chapter Three: The Expressive Revolution and the University: Parsons vs. Gouldner; Chapter Four: Parsons, Psychoanalysis and the Therapeutic Relationship; Chapter Five: Meanings of Life and Death: Insights of the Human Condition Paradigm.
- Chapter Six: Luhmann's Reception of ParsonsPart II: Social Evolution and the American Societal Community; Chapter Seven: Explaining Modernity: Talcott Parsons's Evolutionary Theory and Individualism; Chapter Eight: Talcott Parsons's Historical Analysis and the Cultural-Political Freeze in China: A Reinterpretation; Chapter Nine: Talcott Parsons and American Exceptionalism; Chapter Ten: American Society and the Societal Community: Talcott Parsons, Citizenship and Diversity; Chapter Eleven: Parsons and Nisbet: Two Versions of Sociological Communitarianism; Back Matter.