After Parsons A Theory of Social Action for the Twenty-First Century / Renee C. Fox, Victor Lidz, Harold J. Bershady, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bershady, Harold J.

Lidz, Victor M.

Fox, Renée C. (Renée Claire), 1928-2020.

Parsons, Talcott, 1902-1979.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Parsons, Talcott, 1902-1979--Congresses.

Sociology--Congresses.

Sociology.

Social action--Congresses.

Social action.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016

Place of Publication:

New York : Russell Sage Foundation, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Esteemed twentieth-century sociologist Talcott Parsons sought to develop a comprehensive and coherent scheme for sociology that could be applied to every society and historical epoch, and address every aspect of human social organization and culture.

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; Preface / Renée C. Fox, Victor M. Lidz, and Harold J. Bershady; Introduction / Renée C. Fox, Victor M. Lidz, and Harold J. Bershady; Part I. Social Institutions and Social Processes ; Chapter 1. Parsons's Economic Sociology and the Development of Economic Sociology / Neil J. Smelser; Chapter 2. Looming Catastrophe: How and Why "Law and Economics" Undermines Fiduciary Duties in Corporate Law / Mark Gould; Chapter 3. Social Order as Communication: Parsons's Theory on the Move from Moral Consensus to Trust / Harald Wenzel

Chapter 4. Affect in Social Life / Harold J. BershadyPart II. Societal Community and Modernization ; Chapter 5. Contradictions in the Societal Community: The Promise and Disappointment of Parsons's Concept / Jeffrey C. Alexander; Chapter 6. How Different Can We Be? Parsons's Societal Community, Pluralism, and the Multicultural Debate / Giuseppe Sciortino; Chapter 7. God, Nation, and Self in America: Some Tensions Between Parsons and Bellah / Robert N. Bellah; Chapter 8. Modernity and Its Endless Discontents / Donald N. Levine; Part III. Sociology and Culture

Chapter 9. Culture as a Subsystem of Action: Autonomous and Heteronomous Functions / Helmut StaubmannChapter 10. Rationalists, Fetishists, and Art Lovers: Action Theory and the Comparative Analysis of High Cultural Institutions / Jeremy Tanner; Chapter 11. The Weberian Talcott Parsons: Sociological Theory in Three Decades of American History / Uta Gerhardt; Chapter 12. From Amherst to Heidelberg: On the Origins of Parsons's Conception of Culture / Charles Camic; Part IV. The Human Condition ; Chapter 13. Parsons and the Human Condition / Edward A. Tiryakian

Chapter 14. What Do American Bioethics and Médecins Sans Frontières Have in Common? The Relevance of Talcott Parsons's Theory of Universalism, Particularism, and Modernity / Renée C. FoxChapter 15. "Social Evolution" in the Light of the Human-Condition Paradigm / Victor M. Lidz; Index

Notes:

"Chapters ... written for a conference held on December 6 to 7, 2002, at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York City, to mark the hundredth anniversary of the birth of ... Talcott Parsons"--P. xi.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-61044-215-6

OCLC:

908573275