Reading Talcott Parsons: A Re-Assessment of His Legacy [Hardcover]

Chapter 1. How Great a Stir he Made in the World&: The Stages in Talcott Parsons Life and Career

Chapter 2. Post-Classical Sociology: Parsons Synthesis

Chapter 3. Why Systems of Action?

Chapter 4. Functional Analysis:?A Methodology for Living Systems

Chapter 5. The Many Forms of (Dis)Obedience: Money, Power and the Theory of Symbolic Media

Chapter 6. Society and Societal Change

Chapter 7. Are We SOcial Constructions? The Link between Character and Society

Chapter 8. The Reason of Culture

Addressing the neglect of the work of Talcott Parsons, the complexity of whose thought and the opacity of whose writing style can prove daunting, this book provides a comprehensible account of the major theoretical accomplishments in his work and the reasons for which his legacy remains important to contemporary sociological debates.

We owe Helmut Staubmann a major debt of gratitude for reviving Parsons core legacy namely his foundational action theory.

Bryan S. Turner, ACU, CUNY, the Edward Cadbury Centre Birmingham and the Australian Academy

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A variety of reasons might explain why Parsons isnt read much anymore, but Helmut Staubmanns book elegantly shows that Parsons deserves his place in all courses on sociological theory.

Raf Vanderstraeten, University of Ghent

Addressing the neglect of the work of Talcott Parsons, the complexity of whose thought and the opacity of whose writing style can prove daunting, this book provides a comprehensible account of the major theoretical accomplishments in his work and the reasons for which his legacy remains important to contemporary sociological debates. With attention to the unification of theoretical concepl3¸