Causation and Functionalism in Sociology [Paperback]

Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION; Chapter 2 PRODUCTIVE CAUSALITY IN FUNCTIONALISM; Chapter 3 TELECAUSALITY IN FUNCTIONALISM; Chapter 4 TALCOTT PARSONS MEANS-ENDS SCHEMA OF FUNCTIONAL EXPLANATION; Chapter 5 THE EXPLANATORY IMPORT OF FUNCTIONALISM: OBJECTIONS AND EVALUATION;This is Volume I of twenty-two in the Social Theory and Methodology series. First published in 1968 this text looks at an analysis of functionalism by means of the notion of causality. It is a study of functionalism, yet also an explication of the notion of causality through its application to a sociological theory.US? 1968 Wsevolod W Isajiw