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Talcott Parsons; economic sociologist of the 20th century.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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9781405155298
Talcott Parsons; economic sociologist of the 20th century.
Parsons, Talcott. Ed. by Laurence S. Moss and Andrew Savchenko.
Blackwell Publishing
2005
226 pages
$64.00
Hardcover
HM548
Talcott Parsons (1902-1979) was an influential American sociologist whose work, related but not reducible to functionalism, sought an overarching grand theory for the social sciences. One of his noteworthy theoretical contributions in pursuit of this goal was his proposed AGIL paradigm, which holds that societal action systems are composed of four ...
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