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Author(s): Uta Gerhardt
ISBN(s): 9780521810227, 0521810221
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 2.21 MB
Year: 2002
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0521810221 
ISBN 13: 9780521810227
Author: Uta Gerhardt

The American sociologist Talcott Parsons was often accused of being an overly abstract, even apolitical thinker, remote in Harvard’s ivory tower. Uta Gerhardt dispels this image in her fascinating account of the political nature of Parsons’s life and scholarship. Gerhardt depicts Parsons as a champion of American society and democracy. In this respect he followed the lead of his venerable mentor, Max Weber. Parsons’s work, Gerhardt argues, was driven by an overriding agenda to develop a sociological understanding and defense of the development of modern democracy.

Talcott Parsons An Intellectual Biography 1st Table of contents:

  • Understanding The Structure of Social Action

  • The Long Shadow of Darwinism

  • The Matter of Facts

  • Summary

  • Postscript: What about Cultural Pessimism?

  • Parsons’s Sociology of National Socialism, 1938–1945

    • Introduction

    • The Pre-War Period

    • Before Pearl Harbor

    • The Year 1942

    • Toward VE-Day

    • Beyond Victory

    • Summary

  • The Harvard Social-Science War Effort and The Social System

    • Introduction

    • Some Scenarios in the War Effort of the Social Sciences at Harvard

    • Parsons’s Themes Connected with Harvard’s War Effort

    • The War Effort Realized by Three of Parsons’s Harvard Colleagues

    • Parsons’s Reaction to the Deployment of the Atom Bomb

    • The Fate of Parsons’s Memorandum Analyzing the War Effort of the Social Sciences

    • The Second Memorandum, an Unpublished Book

    • The Third Attempt

    • Summary

    • Postscript: Becoming Politically Embattled Personally

  • A New Agenda for Citizenship: Parsons’s Theory and American Society in the 1960s

    • Introduction

    • The New Perspective on Power and the Polity

    • Understanding Value-Commitments

    • The Generalized Symbolic Media and the Theory of Society

    • The New Perspective on Integration and Democracy

    • Introducing Societal Community

    • Theory of Integration

    • Summary

    • Postscript: The Three Arenas for Change and Crisis

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