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Talcott Parsons: An Intellectual Biography

Talcott Parsons: An Intellectual Biography

Gerhardt, Uta

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General Sociology

ISBN10: 0521174589
ISBN13: 9780521174589
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Mar 3 2011
Pages: 334
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The American sociologist Talcott Parsons was often accused of being an overly abstract, even apolitical thinker, remote in Harvard's ivory tower. Uta Gerhardt dispels this image in her fascinating account of the political nature of Parsons's life and scholarship. Gerhardt depicts Parsons as a champion of American society and democracy. In this respect he followed the lead of his venerable mentor, Max Weber. Parsons's work, Gerhardt argues, was driven by an overriding agenda to develop a sociological understanding and defense of the development of modern democracy.

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