A comment on Talcott Parsons at Brown University.(Contemporary Responses)

From: The American Journal of Economics and Sociology | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: Sciortino, Giuseppe | Copyright information

Professor Sciortino offers his impressions of the recently discovered transcriptions of the seminar Parsons participated in at Brown University on March 10, 1973.

The publishing of the transcript of the 1973 seminar with Talcott Parsons at Brown University is a lucky event: it provides a fascinating glimpse into Parsons's biography and ideas in one of the lesser known and less-investigated phases of his career; it highlights some features of his intellectual education th...

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