The Social System
The Social System

Author: Talcott Parsons

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-08-21

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 1134927746

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This book brings together, in systematic and generalized form, the main outlines of a conceptual scheme for the analysis of the structure and processes of social systems. It carries out Pareto's intention by using the "structural-functional" level of analysis.

Islands and Empires
Islands and Empires

Author: Ernest Stanley Dodge

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 1452908222

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"Islands and Empires "was first published in 1976. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. This is the first one-volume account of the massive impact of Western civilization on the Pacific Islands and the Far East, principally China and Japan. The effects on the two areas were very different since, in the case of the islands, contact was with peoples who were still in the Stone Age, while in the Far East Westerners came up against sophisticated civilizations more ancient and mature than their own. Because of these differences, the book is divided into two sections, the first dealing with the Pacific Islands and the second with the East Asian mainland. Reverse influences--those of the Eastern cultures on the West--are also discussed.

Talcott Parsons on Economy and Society (RLE Social Theory)
Talcott Parsons on Economy and Society (RLE Social Theory)

Author: Bryan S. Turner

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-08-27

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 1317652258

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'In this remarkable collection of essays, Holton and Turner demonstrate that Parsonian sociology addresses the most central problems of our time – issues of sickness and health, power and inequality, the nature of capitalism and its possible alternatives. They develop a mature and original perspective on Parsons as the only classical theorist who avoided crippling nostalgia. Holton and Turner not only talk about Parsonian sociology in a profound and insightful way, they do it, and do it well. As sociology moves away from the rigid dichotomies of earlier debate, this book will help point the way.' – Jeffrey Alexander, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Sociology, UCLA