Talcott Parsons on Institutions and Social Evolution

Selected Writings

By: Talcott Parsons, Leon H. Mayhew (Editor)

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Talcott Parsons is regarded, by admirers and critics alike, as a major creator of the sociological thought of our time. Despite the universal recognition of his influence, however, Parsons's thought is not well understood, in part because his work presents the reader with almost legendary difficulties. Most of his important essays and books presume that the reader is familiar with his rather specialized vocabulary, and even when Parsons begins by defining basic terms, his special uses for words and his style of exposition strike many readers as forbidding.

In his extensive introduction to this volume, Leon H. Mayhew brings a new focus and clarity to Talcott Parsons's work. Explicating Parsons on his own terms, Mayhew discusses the basic tools of Parsonian analysis and interprets the larger themes of his work. He provides a chronological account of the development of Parsons's thought, his presuppositions, and his position on the ideological spectrum of social thought.

Mayhew then presents twenty of Parsons's essays, touching on each of the major aspects of his work, including "action" theory and the celebrated four-function scheme. Other topics covered include the role of theory in social research, evolutionary universals in society, influence, control, and the mass media.

"Talcott Parsons on Institutions and Social Evolution will become a standard reference for those studying that development of his sociological ideas."-Martin Bulmer, The Times Higher Education Supplement

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Preface A Biographical
Note Introduction
Sociological Theory and the Action Frame of Reference
The Role of Theory in Social Research
The Place of Ultimate Values in Sociological Theory
The Action Frame of Reference
Hobbes and the Problem of Order
Rationality and Utilitarianism
The Pattern Variables
Institutionalization
Integration and Institutionalization in the Social System
The Superego and the Theory of Social Systems
Illness and the Role of the Physician,with Rene Fox
The Hierarchy of Control
Specification
Jurisdiction
Institutionalized Exchange
Durkheim on Organic Solidarity
Double Interchanges in Economy and Society,with Neil Smelser
On the Concept of Influence
Change, Evolution, and Modern Society
Some Considerations on the Theory of Social Change
The Mass Media and the Structure of American Society, with Winston White
Archaic and Historic Societies
Evolutionary Universals in Society
American Values and American Society,with
Notes
Index
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