The Anthem Companion to Talcott Parsons

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Edited by A. Javier Treviño

Publisher:: Anthem Press
Online publication date:: July 2017
Print publication year:: 2016
Online ISBN:: 9780857281920

Subjects:: Sociology: General Interest, Sociology

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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 be useful to graduate students, faculty, and Parsons scholars.

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Frontmatter
pp i-v

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pp vi-vii

Introduction
pp 1-20

Part I - Political and Humanist Concerns
pp 21-22

Chapter One - Fighting the Deadly Enemy of Democracy: Sociology against National Socialism
pp 23-42

Chapter Two - Parsons's Critique of the Power Elite Thesis: Foundations for a Comprehensive Theory of Power
pp 43-54

Chapter Three - The Expressive Revolution and the University: Parsons vs. Gouldner
pp 55-72

Chapter Four - Parsons, Psychoanalysis and the Therapeutic Relationship
pp 73-90

Chapter Five - Meanings of Life and Death: Insights of the Human Condition Paradigm
pp 91-112

Chapter Six - Luhmann's Reception of Parsons
pp 113-130

Part II - Social Evolution and the American Societal Community
pp 131-132

Chapter Seven - Explaining Modernity: Talcott Parsons's Evolutionary Theory and Individualism
pp 133-154

Chapter Eight - Talcott Parsons's Historical Analysis and the Cultural–Political Freeze in China: A Reinterpretation
pp 155-176

Chapter Nine - Talcott Parsons and American Exceptionalism
pp 177-190

Chapter Ten - American Society and the Societal Community: Talcott Parsons, Citizenship and Diversity
pp 191-206

Chapter Eleven - Parsons and Nisbet: Two Versions of Sociological Communitarianism
pp 207-222

Contributors
pp 223-224

Index
pp 225-228

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