Working Papers in the Theory of Action
Author: Talcott Parsons
Publisher: Glencoe, Ill., Free P
Published: 1953
Total Pages: 280
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Talcott Parsons
Author: Peter Hamilton
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780415037631
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTalcott Parsons (1904-79) is widely regarded as one of the most important sociologists of the twentieth century. These four volumes provide an essential guide to the thought and work of this major sociologist.
Talcott Parsons Today
Author: A. Javier Treviño
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780742509580
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese ten essays reassess and continue Parson's work in sociology, weighing in on the controversies which continue to surround his thought. Topics include scientific paradigms and organizational culture, Weber's influence, complexity theory, functionalism, generalized symbolic media, the social community, and normative dilemmas. Contributors include scholars of sociology, communications, and behavioral science, from the North America, Europe, and Australia. c. Book News Inc.
Theoretical Logic in Sociology
Author: Jeffrey C. Alexander
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-03-11
Total Pages: 1669
ISBN-13: 1317807057
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis four volume work, originally published in the 1980s and out of print for some years, represents a major attempt to redirect the course of contemporary sociological thought. Jeffrey Alexander analyses the most general and fundamental elements of sociological thinking about action and order and their ramifications for empirical study. He insists that sociological thought need not choose between voluntary action and social constraint. The four volumes can be read independently of one another as each presents a distinctive theoretical argument in its own right. The first volume is directed at contemporary problems and controversies, not only in ‘theory’ but in the philosophy and sociology of science. The last three volumes make interpretations, confronting the individual theorists, and the secondary literature, on their own terms.
Modern Reconstruction of Classical Thought
Author: Jeffrey C. Alexander
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-04-03
Total Pages: 598
ISBN-13: 1317808606
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this volume the author maintains that sociology must learn to combine the insights of both Durkheim and Marx and that it can only do so on the presuppositional ground that Weber set forth. Alexander maintains that the idealist and materialist traditions must be transformed into analytic dimensions of multidimensional and synthetic theory. This volume focusses on the writing of Talcott Parsons, the only modern thinker who can be considered a true peer of the classical founders, and examines his own profoundly ambivalent attempt to carry out this analytic transformation.
The Emerald Guide to Talcott Parsons
Author: John Scott
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2020-08-27
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 1839826568
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is an introductory guide to the work of Talcott Parsons, designed specifically for students and those new to his work. It offers a comprehensive guide to reading and understanding the development of Parsons’s sociological ideas, placing them in the context of his life and his position in American sociology.
The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Major Social Theorists
Author: George Ritzer
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2011-03-31
Total Pages: 632
ISBN-13: 1444396609
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReflecting emerging research and ongoing reassessments of social theory, The Wiley- Blackwell Companion to Major Social Theorists offers significant updates and revisions to the original Blackwell Companion published a decade ago. Volume 1 Features updates and revisions to all essays from original volume, plus the addition of 11 new authors Includes six new essays featuring coverage of theorists not included in original volume: Ibn Khaldun, de Tocqueville, Schumpeter, Mannheim, Veblen, and Adorno Supplemented with comprehensive bibliographies on primary and secondary sources, with a brief reader's guide accompanying each essay Addresses continuing relevance of most theories and their importance to contemporary scholarship Volume 2 Features updates and revisions to all essays from original volume, plus the addition of 16 new authors Includes 11 new essays featuring coverage of theorists not included in original volume, including Deleuze, Bauman, Smith, Luhmann, Agamben, and others Supplemented with comprehensive bibliographies on primary and secondary sources, with a brief reader's guide accompanying each essay Essays placed in social and historical context to allow readers to see how theorists have responded to pressing contemporary social and political issues
Social Capital in Organizations
Author: Wenzel Matiaske
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2013-05-20
Total Pages: 395
ISBN-13: 1443848859
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs recently as one generation ago, the term organization was synonymous with stasis, reliability, hierarchy and disciplined productivity. The new guiding principles of management practise, meanwhile, are dynamism, flexibility, teams and emancipated interactivity. The new key term “network” has summed up these contemporary organizational trends. This study suggests the interpretation of networks as social capital of individuals and organizations. This understanding requires a theoretical and methodological refocusing on the actions of the organization’s members. The present study places a variant of action theory – socioeconomic exchange theory – centre stage, fuses this theory with the toolkit of social network analysis and puts the resulting synthesis to the test by examining cooperation among equal members of an organization.
The Quest for a General Theory of Leadership
Author: George R. Goethals
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2007-01-01
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1847202934
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book represents a most robust look at the study of leadership while representing multiple disciplines in a quest to find agreement about leadership and theory. Russ Volckmann, International Leadership Review In this compelling book, top scholars from diverse fields describe the progress they have made in developing a general theory of leadership. Led by James MacGregor Burns, Pulitzer Prize winning author of the classic Leadership (1978), they tell the story of this intellectual venture and the conclusions and questions that arose from it. The early chapters describe how, in order to discuss an integrative theory, the group first wrestled with the nature of theory as well as basic aspects of the human condition that make leadership necessary and possible. They then tackle topics such as: the many faces of power woven into the leadership fabric; crucial elements of group dynamics and the leader follower relationship; ethical issues lying at the heart of leadership; constructivist perspectives on leadership, causality, and social change; and the historical and cultural contexts that influence and are influenced by leadership. The book concludes with a commentary by Joanne Ciulla and an Afterword by James MacGregor Burns. The contributors thorough coverage of leadership, as well as their approach to this unique undertaking, will be of great interest to leaders, students and scholars of leadership.
Society and Psyche
Author: Kanakis Leledakis
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-08-25
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 100032379X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProviding interpretations and drawing critically from classical and modern social theory, post-structuralism, and psychoanalytic theory, this original study offers an alternative way of thinking about the social and the individual. It offers critical analyses of, among others, Marx, Giddens, Bourdieu, Derrida, Laclau and Mouffe, Castoriadis, Freud and modern psychoanalytic theorists, and considers their roles in advancing our present-day conceptualization of the social and the self. In theorizing that behaviour is both socially determined and autonomous, it avoids the impasses of either individualist or structuralist approaches.
