Talcott parsons an intellectual biography
Talcott parsons an intellectual biography
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Literary Theory and Criticism
By NASRULLAH MAMBROLon •
American sociologist who, as the principal exponent of what is known as structural functionalism, exerted a major influence over social theory in the middle part of the twentieth century.
Parsons Talcott‘s (1902-1979), work continues to have an impact in German sociology, specifically in debates over systems theory (Habermas 1987;Luhmann 1982).
At the core of Parsons’s work one may situate the ‘problem of order’.
Social life is ordered. Meaningful interaction between social agents (what Parsons terms ‘social action’) has every appearance of stability, and the social institutions upon which agents rely typically behave in a predictable way.
Talcott parsons an intellectual biography summary
Shops and schools open and close at predictable times. Money keeps its value. The meanings of words do not change. Yet there is little that is self-evident about this order, for, as the seventeenth-century philosopher Hobbes had