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Edited by Max Black. The social theories of Talcott Parsons. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1961. x + 363 pp. $7.50.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Bernard Suits
Bernard Suits*
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Purdue University
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , April 1964 , pp. 192 - 195
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Copyright © The Philosophy of Science Association 1964

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∗ Parsons notes that this term “claims too much. What I contend is that an essential set of components are common to systems which, like personality and social systems, are adjacent in the hierarchial series. This is the problem … of the interpenetration between systemes” (356).