Parsonian economic sociology: bridges to contemporary economics.(New Directions in Parsons Research and Research in the Tradition of Parsons)

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

This article focuses on Parsonian economic sociology and its actual or potential bridges and contributions to contemporary economics. These bridges are methodological or epistemological and theoretical or substantive ones. A relevant instance of the methodological bridges is socioeconomic holism, epitomized in the systems approach to economy and society. An important case of the theoretical bridges is sociological institutionalism. The holistic systems approach is a pertinent methodological...

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