The Anthem Companion to Talcott Parsons ( 1 )

Publication series ：1

Author： Treviño A. Javier

Publisher： Anthem Press‎

Publication year： 2016

E-ISBN: 9780857281920

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780857281838

Subject： C91 Sociology

Keyword：社会学

Language： ENG

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Description

The Anthem Companion to Talcott Parsons 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 make it ideal for Parsons’s students and scholars alike.

Chapter

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 Parsons

Part 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

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