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Talcott Parsons (1902–1979)

Autor de El sistema social

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Talcott Parsons, an American sociologist, introduced Max Weber to American sociology and became himself the leading theorist of American sociology after World War II. His Structure of Social Action (1937) is a detailed comparison of Alfred Marshall, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Vilfredo Pareto. mostrar más Parsons concluded that these four scholars, coming from contrasting backgrounds and from four different countries, converged, without their knowing of the others, on a common theoretical and methodological position that he called "the voluntaristic theory of action." Subsequently, Parsons worked closely with the anthropologists Clyde Kluckhohn, Elton Mayo, and W. Lloyd Warner, and the psychologists Gordon W. Allport and Henry A. Murray, to define social, cultural, and personality systems as the three main interpenetrative types of action organization. He is widely known for his use of four pattern variables for characterizing social relationships:affectivity versus neutrality, diffuseness versus specificity, particularism versus universalism, and ascription versus achievement. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

Series

Obras de Talcott Parsons

El sistema social (1951) 119 copias
The Negro American (1966) 30 copias
System of Modern Societies (1971) 23 copias
The Evolution of Societies (1977) 13 copias
The American University (1973) 8 copias
BIOGRAFA INTELECTUAL (2009) 3 copias
社會的演化 (1999) 1 copia
Sosiologiske essays (1988) 1 copia

Obras relacionadas

The Sociology of Religion (1922) — Introducción, algunas ediciones476 copias
The Theory of Social and Economic Organization (1915) — Editor, algunas ediciones313 copias
Reader in Comparative Religion: An Anthropological Approach (1958) — Contribuidor — 209 copias
The Radical Right: The New American Right (1963) — Contribuidor — 94 copias
Chinese Communist Society: The Family and the Village (1959) — Prólogo, algunas ediciones35 copias
C. Wright Mills and The power elite (1968) — Contribuidor — 25 copias

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Conocimiento común

Fecha de nacimiento
1902-12-13
Fecha de fallecimiento
1979-05-08
Género
male
Nacionalidad
USA
Lugar de nacimiento
Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
Lugar de fallecimiento
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Educación
Amherst College
University of Heidelberg
London School of Economics
Ocupaciones
Sociologist
professor
Relaciones
Parsons, Charles (son)
Organizaciones
Harvard University

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For those who want to learn about Parsonian theory, especially the late four-function model, this is probably the best and least painful approach (along with its companion work, The System of Modern Societies). In a very short compass it includes many important insights about historical development as well as an elegant laying-out of the theoretical framework in just a few pages.
 
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Heckscher | otra reseña | Feb 12, 2011 |
Parsons gives structure to the process of social history, with functionalist (Spencer, Weber) evolutionary taxonomy -- where society is an adaptive system extending self-sufficiency within respective physical-organic environments.

Parsons begins with a synopsis of pertinent theory, then treats the "primitive", "archaic" and "intermediate" forms of society with a functionalist focus, and ends with a Conclusion squarely facing criticisms and questions.

Functional differentiation, combined with generalized norms, increases the adaptive capacity of societies. The main dynamic of social change is cultural innovation in which the "cybernetic" social controls over environment become increasingly effective. I think this approach works quite well in analyzing societies where documentation is fragmentary and it does seem to adequately explain historical changes. Also, as Parsons shows with reference to three "historic" intermediate societies -- China, India, and Islamic Empires, and "seed-bed" Israel and Greece -- the method explodes the most significant historicist problem, that of variation among intermediate societies.

Parsons' succeeding volume (The System of Modern Societies) completes the demonstration of the method's potential in treating "modern" societes. (I am not sure functionalist theory serves as well in surfeit societies.)
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keylawk | otra reseña | Oct 18, 2007 |
It begins by kicking dirt on the grave of Herbert Spencer, but moves on to interesting territory, making much of the difference (some of it seemingly alleged) between the utilitarian and voluntaristic theories of action. Major thinkers like Pareto, Marshall, and Weber discussed.

This edition is in two trade paperback volumnes.
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wirkman | otra reseña | Jul 27, 2007 |
SUMÁRIO:

VOLUME I
(.)
[009] - Introdução à edição encadernada;
[021] - Prefácio à 2a, Edição;
[027] - Prefácio.
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[031] - PARTE I - A Teoria Positivista da Ação:
[033] - 01 Capítulo Introdutório;
[078] - 02 A Teoria da Ação;
[128] - 03 Algumas fases do desenvolvimento histórico do positivismo individualista na Teoria da Ação.
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[171] - PARTE II - O Surgimento de uma Teoria Voluntarista da Ação a partir da tradição positivista:
[173] - 04 Alfred Marshall: Necessidades e atividades e o problema do campo de ação da economia;
[229] - 05 Vilfredo Pareto, I: A Metodologia e o esquema analítico principal;
[274] - 06 Vilfredo Pareto, II: Expansão e verificação da análise estrutural;
[330] - 07 Vilfredo Pareto, III: Generalizações empíricas e conclusões;
[365] - 08 Émile Durkheim, I: Primeiros trabalhos empíricos,
[411] - 09 Émile Durkheim, II: A Metodologia do positivismo sociológico;
[448] - 10 Émile Durkheim, III: O Desenvolvimento da Teoria do Controle Social;
[484] - 11 Émile Durkheim, IV: A fase final: religião e epistemologia;
[531] - 12 Sumário da Parte II: O colapso da Teoria Positivista da Ação.
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[553] - Bibliografia - Vol. I:
[565] - Índice analítico e onomástico - Vol. I;
[588] - Índice Geral - Vols. I.
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VOLUME II
(.)
[601] - Introdução à edição encadernada;
[613] - Prefácio à 2a, Edição;
[619] - Prefácio.
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[623] - PARTE III - A emergência de uma Teoria Voluntarista da Ação a partir da tradição Idealista:
[625] - 13 A tradição Idealista;
[656] - 14 Max Weber, I: A religião e o capitalismo moderno - A: Protestantismo e capitalismo;
[701] - 15 Max Weber, II: A religião e o capitalismo moderno - B: Os estudos comparativos;
[746] - 16 Max Weber, III: Metodologia;
[814] - 17 Max Weber, IV: Teoria Sistemática.
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[877] - PARTE IV - Conclusão:
[879] - 18 Conclusões verificadas empiricamente;
[912] - 19 Implicações metodológicas experimentais.
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[967] - Bibliografia - Vol. II;
[975] - Índice analítico e onomástico - Vol. II;
[996] - Índice Geral - Vols. II.
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SaraivaOrelio | otra reseña | Apr 2, 2013 |

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