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American Society: A Theory of Societal Community

American Society: A Theory of Societal Community

Parsons, Talcott
Sciortino, Giuseppe
Alexander, Jeffrey C.

Hardcover

Series: Yale Cultural Sociology

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral SociologyPoverty & Social Work

ISBN10: 1594512272
ISBN13: 9781594512278
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 1 2007
Pages: 542
Weight: 1.92
Height: 1.35 Width: 5.88 Depth: 9.38
Language: English
Never before published, American Society is the product of Talcott Parsons's last major theory-building project. During the 1970s, Parsons worked persistently to fulfill his earlier promise to produce a general book on American society. The surviving manuscript, completed just a few weeks before his death, is just such a book. Beyond its rich reading of American society, it offers a systematic presentation and major revisions of his previous landmark theoretical positions: the attempt to elaborate a non-nostalgic theory of modernity, to link macro and micro perspectives, to defend the possibility of objective sociological knowledge, to analyze national specificities within the context of worldwide trends, to develop an adequate conception of societal integration grounded in fully pluralistic premises. Even after the passage of many years, the book imparts a remarkably provocative interpretation of US society and a creative approach to social theory.

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