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The Anthem Companion to Talcott Parsons
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'The Anthem Companion to Talcott Parsons' offers the best contemporary work on Talcott Parsons, written by the best scholars currently working in this field. Original, authoritative and wide-ranging, the critical assessments of this volume will make it ideal for Parsons students and scholars alike. 'Anthem Companions to Sociology' offer authoritative and comprehensive assessments of major figures in the development of sociology from the last two centuries. Covering the major advancements in sociological thought, these companions offer critical evaluations of key figures in the American and European sociological tradition, and will provide students and scholars with both an in-depth assessment of the makers of sociology and chart their relevance to modern society.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. Political and Humanist Concerns
- Chapter One Fighting the Deadly Enemy of Democracy: Sociology against National Socialism
- Chapter Two Parsons’s Critique of the Power Elite Thesis: Foundations for a Comprehensive Theory of Power
- Chapter Three The Expressive Revolution and the University: Parsons vs. Gouldner
- Chapter Four Parsons, Psychoanalysis and the Therapeutic Relationship
- Chapter Five Meanings of Life and Death: Insights of the Human Condition Paradigm
- Chapter Six Luhmann’s Reception of Parsons
- Part II. Social Evolution and the American Societal Community
- Chapter Seven Explaining Modernity: Talcott Parsons’s Evolutionary Theory and Individualism
- Chapter Eight Talcott Parsons’s Historical Analysis and the Cultural–Political Freeze in China: A Reinterpretation
- Chapter Nine Talcott Parsons and American Exceptionalism
- Chapter Ten American Society and the Societal Community: Talcott Parsons, Citizenship and Diversity
- Chapter Eleven Parsons and Nisbet: Two Versions of Sociological Communitarianism
- Contributors
- Index