American Society

Name: American Society
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Toward a Theory of Societal Community

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Never before published, American Society is the product of Talcott Parsons's last major theory-building project. During the 1970s, Parsons worked persistently to fulfill his earlier promise to produce "a general book on American society". The surviving manuscript, completed just a few weeks before his death, is just such a book. Beyond its rich reading of American society, it offers a systematic presentation and major revisions of his previous landmark theoretical positions: the attempt to elaborate a non-nostalgic theory of modernity, to link macro and micro perspectives, to defend the possibility of objective sociological knowledge, to analyze national specificities within the context of worldwide trends, to develop an adequate conception of societal integration grounded in fully pluralistic premises. Even after the passage of many years, the book imparts a remarkably provocative interpretation of US society and a creative approach to social theory.

Author Biography:

Parsons, Talcott; Sciortino, Giuseppe

Release date Australia

December 15th, 2006

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Undergraduate

Pages

542

Dimensions

152x229x34

ISBN-13

9781594512278

Product ID

3613872

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