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Yp Talcott Parsons
Provides biographical information on, and access to articles by
the functionalist sociologist Talcott Parsons. The information on
Parsons is organised into several areas including the evolution of
societies and action theory and the human condition .
Yp Talcott Parsons on Institutions and Social Evolution: Selected
Writings [extract]
Edited by Leon R. Mayhew. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1982, chs. 1-5 (early writings), ch. 6 (µThe Pattern Variables¶),
ch. 7 (µIntegration and Institutionalization¶), ch. 9 (µIllness and
the Role of the Physician¶), ch. 15 (µOn the Concept of
Influence¶), ch. 19 (µEvolutionary Universals in Society¶).
Yp [1937] The Unit Act of Action Systems
From: Talcott Parsons [1937] ?

 
 
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pp. 43-8.
Yp [1939] The Professions and Social Structure
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Yp [1942] Age and Sex in the Social Structure of the U.S. [extract]
From: Talcott Parsons [1954] à  


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ch. 5.
Yp [1943] Sex Roles in American Kinship System
From: Talcott Parsons [1954] ³The Kinship System of the Contemporary United
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 New York: Free Press, pp. 189-94.
Yp [1951] Toward a Genral Theory of Social Action (with Schills and Klucklohn)
Yp [1956] Suggestions for a Sociological Approach to the Theory of Organizations
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Yp [1971] Action Systems and Social Systems
From: Talcott Parsons [1971] The System of Modern Societies. Englewood Cliffs, NJ:
Prentice-Hall, pp.4-8.
Yp [1973] The American University
Yp [1975] The Present Status of Structural-Functional Theory in Sociology
In: Coser, Lewis A. (ed.) [1975] The Idea of Social Structure: Papers in Honor of
Robert K. Merton. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. pp. 67-84.
Yp [1977] The Evolution of Societies
This book consists of the republication in one volume of two previously published
books by Talcott Parsons on the subject of societal evolution: (i)Societies:
Evolutionary and Compartive Perspectives and (2) The System of Modern Societies.
Yp [1981] Action Theory and the Human Condition
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Yp An Outline of the Social System, pp. 30-79.