Reading Talcott Parsons

A Re-Assessment of His Legacy

Helmut Staubmann (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

142 Seiten

2025
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-63741-5 (ISBN)

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Addressing the neglect of the work of Talcott Parsons, the complexity of whose thought and the opacity of whose writing style can prove daunting, this book provides a comprehensible account of the major theoretical accomplishments in his work and the reasons for which his legacy remains important to contemporary sociological debates. With attention to the unification of theoretical concepts for the humanities, basic methodological issues such as empiricism and functional analysis, the definition and status of culture, the interaction between the individual and society and the question of modernity and societal change, Reading Talcott Parsons: A Re-Assessment of His Legacy offers an orientation in the work of one of the 20th century’s most important sociologists and explores the reason for which his contributions to the discipline are of enduring importance. As such it will appeal to scholars and students across the social sciences with interests in social theory, social research methodology and the history of sociology.

Helmut Staubmann is Professor Emeritus of Social Theory and Cultural Sociology at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. His research focuses on aesthetics and foundational issues of sociological theory. He is the author of Sociology in a New Key. Essays in Social Theory and Aesthetics (2022) and editor (with A. Javier Treviño) of The Routledge International Handbook of Talcott Parsons Studies (2022). Together with Victor M. Lidz, he edits the book series Studies in the Theory of Action. (www.helmut-staubmann.info)

Chapter 1. “How Great a Stir he Made in the World…”: The Stages in Talcott Parsons’ Life and Career

Chapter 2. Post-Classical Sociology: Parsons’ Synthesis

Chapter 3. Why Systems of Action?

Chapter 4. Functional Analysis: A Methodology for Living Systems

Chapter 5. The Many Forms of (Dis)Obedience: Money, Power and the Theory of Symbolic Media

Chapter 6. Society and Societal Change

Chapter 7. Are We SOcial Constructions? The Link between Character and Society

Chapter 8. The Reason of Culture

Erscheinungsdatum	24.04.2025
Reihe/Serie	Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
Zusatzinfo	4 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Halftones, black and white; 8 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	450 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	0-367-63741-3 / 0367637413
ISBN-13	978-0-367-63741-5 / 9780367637415
Zustand	Neuware