Talcott Parsons.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

From: Reference & Research Book News | Date: November 1, 2006 | Copyright information

075462482X

Talcott Parsons.

Ed. by John Holmwood.

Ashgate Publishing Co.

2006

534 pages

$275.00

Hardcover

International library of essays in the history of social and political thought

HM477

A prolific author and theorist, Talcott Parsons (1902-1979) is arguably the most important and influential U.S. sociologist of the 20th century. This volume contains reprints of 19 scholarly essays on ...

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