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After Parsons: A Theory of Social Action for the Twenty-First Century
01 Jan 2005
Abstract
Fifteen papers, written for a Russell Sage Foundation conference held in New York City in December 2002, mark the hundredth anniversary of the birth of American sociologist Talcott Parsons. Papers discuss Parsons's economic sociology and the development of economic sociology (Neil J. Smelser); how and why "Law and Economics" undermines fiduciary duties in corporate law (Mark Gould); social order as communication and Parsons's theory on the move from moral consensus to trust (Harald Wenzel); affect in social life (Harold J. Bershady); contradictions in the societal community--the promise and disappointment of Parsons's concept (Jeffrey C. Alexander); Parsons's societal community, pluralism, and the multicultural debate (Giuseppe Sciortino); God, nation, and self in America (Robert N. Bellah); modernity and its endless discontents (Donald N. Levine); culture as a subsystem of action--autonomous and heteronomous functions (Helmut Staubmann); action theory and the comparative analysis of high cultural institutions (Jeremy Tanner); sociological theory in three decades of American history (Uta Gerhardt); the origins of Parsons's conception of culture (Charles Camic); Parsons and the human condition (Edward A. Tiryakian); the relevance of Parsons's theory of universalism, particularism, and modernity (Renee C. Fox); and "social evolution" in light of the human condition paradigm (Victor M. Lidz). Fox is Annenberg Professor Emerita of the Social Sciences and Senior Fellow at the Center for Bioethics, and Bershady is Professor Emeritus of Sociology, at the University of Pennsylvania. Lidz is Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Drexel University College of Medicine. Index.
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- Title
- After Parsons: A Theory of Social Action for the Twenty-First Century
- Creators
- Renee C. FoxVictor M LidzHarold J Bershady
- Publisher
- New York : Russell Sage Foundation, c2005
- Number of pages
- xiii, 349 pages
- Resource Type
- Book
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- [Retired Faculty]
- Identifiers
- 9780871542694; 0871542692; 991019173658304721