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Modern Reconstruction of Classical Thought: Talcott Parsons

Author : Jeffrey Alexander
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317808614
Total Pages : 559 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Modern Reconstruction of Classical Thought: Talcott Parsons written by Jeffrey Alexander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume the author maintains that sociology must learn to combine the insights of both Durkheim and Marx and that it can only do so on the presuppositional ground that Weber set forth. Alexander maintains that the idealist and materialist traditions must be transformed into analytic dimensions of multidimensional and synthetic theory. This volume focusses on the writing of Talcott Parsons, the only modern thinker who can be considered a true peer of the classical founders, and examines his own profoundly ambivalent attempt to carry out this analytic transformation.

The Modern Reconstruction of Classical Thought

Author : Jeffrey C. Alexander
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (812 download)

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Theoretical Logic in Sociology: The modern reconstruction of classical thought: Talcott Parsons

Author : Jeffrey C. Alexander
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Theoretical Logic in Sociology: The modern reconstruction of classical thought: Talcott Parsons written by Jeffrey C. Alexander and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Social Thought of Talcott Parsons

Author : Uta Gerhardt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317015525
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Social Thought of Talcott Parsons written by Uta Gerhardt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Social Thought of Talcott Parsons offers an insightful new reading of the work of Talcott Parsons, keeping in view at once the important influences of Max Weber on his sociology and the central place occupied by methodology - which enables us to better understand the relationship between American and European social theory. Revealing American democracy and its nemesis, National Socialism in Germany as the basis of his theory of society, this book explores the debates in which Parsons was engaged throughout his life, with the Frankfurt School, C. Wright Mills and the young radicals among the "disobedient" student generation, as well as economism and utilitarianism in social theory; the opponents that Parsons confronted in the interests of humanism. In addition to revisiting Parsons' extensive oeuvre, Uta Gerhardt takes up themes in current research and theory - including social inequality, civic culture, and globalization - offering a fascinating demonstration of what the conceptual approaches of Parsons can accomplish today. Revealing methodology and the American ethos to be the cornerstones of Parsons' social thought, this book will appeal not only to those with interests in classical sociology - and who wish to fully understand what this 'classic' has to offer - but also to those who wish to make sociology answer to the problems of the society of the present.

Talcott Parsons

Author : Peter Hamilton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415037631
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (376 download)

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Download or read book Talcott Parsons written by Peter Hamilton and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1992 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talcott Parsons (1904-79) is widely regarded as one of the most important sociologists of the twentieth century. These four volumes provide an essential guide to the thought and work of this major sociologist.

Talcott Parsons

Author : Sandro Segre
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 0761855874
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Talcott Parsons written by Sandro Segre and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2012 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction dwells on Parsons' conceptual apparatus and offers a compendium of his research. His works are subdivided into three distinct periods, each characterized by specific concepts and theoretical developments. Parsons utilized his conceptual and theoretical frameworks to conduct several studies, which are presented in detail. Segre also evaluates the numerous receptions of Parsons' writings. Attention is devoted to the controversies and divergent interpretations his works have inspired. -- adapted from back cover.

Theoretical Logic in Sociology

Author : Jeffrey C. Alexander
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317807057
Total Pages : 1669 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Theoretical Logic in Sociology written by Jeffrey C. Alexander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 1669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This four volume work, originally published in the 1980s and out of print for some years, represents a major attempt to redirect the course of contemporary sociological thought. Jeffrey Alexander analyses the most general and fundamental elements of sociological thinking about action and order and their ramifications for empirical study. He insists that sociological thought need not choose between voluntary action and social constraint. The four volumes can be read independently of one another as each presents a distinctive theoretical argument in its own right. The first volume is directed at contemporary problems and controversies, not only in ‘theory’ but in the philosophy and sociology of science. The last three volumes make interpretations, confronting the individual theorists, and the secondary literature, on their own terms.

The Routledge International Handbook of Talcott Parsons Studies

Author : A. Javier Treviño
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000475166
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge International Handbook of Talcott Parsons Studies written by A. Javier Treviño and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talcott Parsons was the leading theorist in American sociology—and perhaps in world sociology—from the 1940s to the 1970s. He created the dominant school of thought that made "Parsonian" a standard description of a theoretical attempt to unify social science, as reflected in the fact that his contributions to the discipline cover a range of issues, including medicine, the family, religion, law, the economy, race relations, and politics—to name but a few. This volume brings together leading scholars working in the field of "Parsonian Studies" to explore the background of Parsons’s work, the content of his oeuvre, and his subsequent influence. Thematically organized, it covers Parsons’s contributions and impacts in areas including the philosophy and methodology of the social sciences; cultural sociology; personality, mental illness, and psychoanalysis; and economics and political and economic sociology. In addition, it considers his influence in different areas of the world and on particular students, and offers insights into the Parsonian tradition’s practical application to contemporary social issues. An authoritative, comprehensive, and in-depth critical assessment of the Parsonian legacy, The Routledge International Handbook of Talcott Parsons Studies will appeal to scholars across the social sciences and in sociology and social theory in particular, with interests in the history of sociology and the enduring relevance of Talcott Parsons.

The Antinomies of Classical Thought: Marx and Durkheim (Theoretical Logic in Sociology)

Author : Jeffrey C. Alexander
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317808673
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book The Antinomies of Classical Thought: Marx and Durkheim (Theoretical Logic in Sociology) written by Jeffrey C. Alexander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume challenges prevailing understanding of the two great founders of sociological thought. In a detailed and systematic way the author demonstrates how Marx and Durkheim gradually developed the fundamental frameworks for sociological materialism and idealism. While most recent interpreters of Marx have placed alienation and subjectivity at the centre of his work, Professor Alexander suggests that it was the later Marx’s very emphasis on alienation that allowed him to avoid conceptualizing subjectivity altogether. In Durkheim’s case, by contrast, the author argues that such objectivist theorizing informed the early work alone, and he demonstrates that in his later writings Durkheim elaborated an idealist theory that used religious life as an analytical model for studying the institutions of secular society.

Classical Attempt at Theoretical Synthesis

Author : Jeffrey C. Alexander
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317808630
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Classical Attempt at Theoretical Synthesis written by Jeffrey C. Alexander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The limits of one-dimensional theory are strikingly revealed in the schools that the founders of the major sociological traditions established. In this volume Max Weber is presented as the theorist who laid out new starting points and the author considers his work as a response, in part, to the idealist tradition which (in Volume 2), he maintains that Durkheim represents. As Weber was less able to avoid ambiguity, the author examines the weaknesses and efforts at ‘paradigm revision’.

Talcott Parsons Today

Author : A. Javier Treviño
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742509580
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Talcott Parsons Today written by A. Javier Treviño and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These ten essays reassess and continue Parson's work in sociology, weighing in on the controversies which continue to surround his thought. Topics include scientific paradigms and organizational culture, Weber's influence, complexity theory, functionalism, generalized symbolic media, the social community, and normative dilemmas. Contributors include scholars of sociology, communications, and behavioral science, from the North America, Europe, and Australia. c. Book News Inc.

The Differentiation of Modernism

Author : Larson Powell
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1571135723
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book The Differentiation of Modernism written by Larson Powell and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2013 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Differentiation of Modernism analyzes the phenomenon of intermediality in German radio plays, film music, and electronic music of the late modernist period (1945-1980). After 1945, the purist "medium specificity" of high modernism increasingly yielded to the mixed forms of intermediality. Theodor Adorno dubbed this development a "Verfransung," or "fraying of boundaries," between the arts. TheDifferentiation of Modernism analyzes this phenomenon in German electronic media arts of the late modernist period (1945-80): in radio plays, film music, and electronic music. The first part of the book begins with a chapter on Adorno's theory of radio as an instrument of democratization, going on to analyze the relationship of the Hörspiel or radio play to electronic music. In the second part, on film music, a chapter on Adorno and Eisler's Composing for the Film sets the parameters for chapters on the film Das Mädchen Rosemarie (1957) and on the music films of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet. The third part examines the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen and its relationship to radio, abstract painting, recording technology, and theatrical happenings. The book's central notion of the "differentiation of culture" suggests that late modernism, unlike high modernism, accepted the contingency of modern mass-media driven society and sought to find new forms for it. Larson Powell is Curator's Professor of Film Studies at University of Missouri, Kansas City. He is the author of The Technological Unconscious in German Modernist Literature (Camden House, 2008).

Theory of Action (Routledge Revivals)

Author : Richard Münch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113682068X
Total Pages : 555 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Theory of Action (Routledge Revivals) written by Richard Münch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern sociology owes its existence and the progress it has made to the integration of differing kinds of orientations. In this work, first published 1987, Professor Richard Münch sets out to reformulate the theory of action, a notion central to sociology and one to which all schools of thought within sociology have contributed. He gives an exposition of the voluntaristic theory of action as found in Talcott Parson's work, reconstructing and extending Parson's theory from the perspective of the present-day level of development. In this way he both integrates opposing orientations to action theory and presents the voluntaristic theory of action in a readable and teachable from.

Theory of Culture

Author : American Sociological Association
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520075986
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (759 download)

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Download or read book Theory of Culture written by American Sociological Association and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the increasing focus on the concept of culture by sociologists and other social scientists, there is now a need for clarifying and developing theoretical perspectives on this issue. The contributors to this volume have answered this call, each adding new insight to the debate over culture, its definition, and its relationship with other basic categories in sociological theory. Along the way they touch on other fundamental issues, such as the interrelationship of culture with society, the human personality, and the wider environment of the human condition.

Classical Sociological Theory

Author : George Ritzer
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1544354851
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book Classical Sociological Theory written by George Ritzer and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2020-03-27 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors are proud sponsors of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award—enabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop. Classical Sociological Theory, Eighth Edition, provides a comprehensive overview of the major theorists and schools of sociological thought from the Enlightenment roots of theory through the early 20th century. The integration of key theories with biographical sketches of theorists and the requisite historical and intellectual context helps students to better understand the original works of classical authors as well as to compare and contrast classical theories.

The Theory of Communicative Action

Author : Jürgen Habermas
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745694462
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book The Theory of Communicative Action written by Jürgen Habermas and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-10-07 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study offers a systematic reconstruction of the theoretical foundations and framework of critical social theory. It is Habermas' "magnum opus", and it is regarded as one of the most important works of modern social thought. In this second and final volume of the work, Habermas examines the relations between action concepts and systems theory and elaborates a framework for analyzing the developmental tendencies of modern societies. He discusses in detail the work of Marx, Durkheim, G.H. Mead and Talcott Parsons, among others. By distinguishing between social systems and what he calls the "life-world", Habermas is able to analyze the ways in which the development of social systems impinges upon the symbolic and subjective dimensions of social life, resulting in the kind of crises, conflicts and protest movements which are characteristic of advanced capitalist societies in the late-20th century.

Cultural Theory

Author : Michael Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429969732
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Theory written by Michael Thompson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do people want what they want? Why does one person see the world as a place to control, while another feels controlled by the world? A useful theory of culture, the authors contend, should start with these questions, and the answers, given different historical conditions, should apply equally well to people of all times, places, and walks of life.Taking their cue from the pioneering work of anthropologist Mary Douglas, the authors of Cultural Theory have created a typology of five ways of life?egalitarianism, fatalism, individualism, hierarchy, and autonomy?to serve as an analytic tool in examining people, culture, and politics. They then show how cultural theorists can develop large numbers of falsifiable propositions.Drawing on parables, poetry, case studies, fiction, and the Great Books, the authors illustrate how cultural biases and social relationships interact in particular ways to yield life patterns that are viable, sustainable, and ultimately, changeable under certain conditions. Figures throughout the book show the dynamic quality of these ways of life and specifically illustrate the role of surprise in effecting small- and large-scale change.The authors compare Cultural Theory with the thought of master social theorists from Montesquieu to Stinchcombe and then reanalyze the classic works in the political culture tradition from Almond and Verba to Pye. Demonstrating that there is more to social life than hierarchy and individualism, the authors offer evidence from earlier studies showing that the addition of egalitarianism and fatalism facilitates cross-national comparisons.