UID:
almafu_9960117686702883
Format:
1 online resource (vi, 227 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-78308-545-2
Series Statement:
Anthem companions to sociology
Content:
〈I〉The Anthem Companion to Talcott Parsons〈/I〉 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 be useful to graduate students, faculty, and Parsons scholars.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017).
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Front Matter; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Chapters; Introduction ; 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
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Chapter Six: Luhmann's Reception of ParsonsPart 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
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Contributors Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-85728-192-5
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-85728-183-6
Language:
English
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9780857281920/type/BOOK
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