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The Anthem companion to Talcott Parsons / edited by A. Javier Treviño.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Anthem companions to sociology.
- Anthem companions to sociology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Parsons, Talcott, 1902-1979.
- Parsons, Talcott.
- Sociologists--United States.
- Sociologists.
- Sociology--United States--History.
- Sociology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 227 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- London : Anthem Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- <I>The Anthem Companion to Talcott Parsons</I> offers the best contemporary work on Talcott Parsons, written by the best scholars currently working in this field. Original, authoritative and wide-ranging, the critical assessments of this volume will be useful to graduate students, faculty, and Parsons scholars.
- 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
- Contributors Index
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781783085453
- 1783085452
- OCLC:
- 958454372
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