Essays in Sociological Theory

Talcott Parsons

• Publisher: Free Press
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN:
  9780029240304
• eBook ISBN:
  9781439119211
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

Talcott Parsons needs little introduction to anyone acquainted with the literature of sociology. Few men have dominated their fields so much as Dr. Parsons does his.
In this collection of nineteen essays, Dr. Parsons focuses his attention on subjects ranging from the social structure of Japan to propaganda and social control, from sociological aspects of Fascist movements to the place of psychoanalysis in society. Also dealt with are such topics as: The role of ideas in social action, the motivation of economic activities, American social structure, social classes and class conflict, and the prospects for contemporary sociological theory.
The whole body of essays presented here belongs in the broad field of "application" of sociological theory. It stands in the line of scientific development of the most advanced techniques for sociological investigation and evaluation of data.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• I The Role of Ideas in Social Action
• II The Professions and Social Structure
• III The Motivation of Economic Activities
• IV An Analytical Approach to the Theory of Social Stratification
• V Age and Sex in the Social Structure of the United States
• VI Democracy and Social Structure in Pre Nazi Germany
• VII Some Sociological Aspects of the Fascist Movements
• VIII Propaganda and Social Control
• IX The Kinship System of the Contemporary United States
• X The Theoretical Development of the Sociology of Religion
• XI The Present Position and Prospects of Systematic Theory in Sociology
• XII The Problem of Controlled Institutional Change
• XIII Population and the Social Structure of Japan
• XIV Certain Primary Sources and Patterns of Aggression in the Social Structure of the Western World
• XV Social Classes and Class Conflict in the Light of Recent Sociological Theory
• XVI Psychoanalysis and the Social Structure
• XVII The Prospects of Sociological Theory
• XVIII A Sociologist Looks at the Legal Profession A
• A Revised Analytical Approach to the Theory of Social Stratificationa
• Index