The Anthem Companion to Talcott Parsons

Herausgeber: Treviño, A. Javier

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Anthem Companion to Talcott Parsons offers the best contemporary work on Talcott Parsons, written by the best scholars currently working in this field. Original, authoritative and wide-ranging, the critical assessments of this volume will make it ideal for Parsons's students and scholars alike.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 539g
• ISBN-13: 9780857281838
• ISBN-10: 0857281836
• Artikelnr.: 39045494

Autorenporträt

Edited by A. Javier Treviño

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors; Introduction -A. Javier Treviño; Part I: Political and
Humanist Concerns ; 1. Fighting the Deadly Enemy of Democracy: Sociology
against National Socialism -Uta Gerhardt; 2. Parsons's Critique of the
"Power Elite" Thesis: Foundations for a Comprehensive Theory of Power -John
Scott; 3. The Expressive Revolution and the University: Parsons vs.
Gouldner -James J. Chriss; 4. Parsons, Psychoanalysis and the Therapeutic
Relationship -A. Javier Treviño; 5. Meanings of Life and Death: Insights of
the Human Condition Paradigm -Victor Lidz; 6. Luhmann's Reception of
Parsons -Sandro Segre; Part II: Social Evolution and the American Societal
Community; 7. Explaining Modernity: Talcott Parsons's Evolutionary Theory
and Individualism -Matteo Bortolini; 8. Talcott Parsons's Historical
Analysis and the Cultural-Political Freeze in China: A Reinterpretation
-Jens Kaalhauge Nielsen; 9. Talcott Parsons and American Exceptionalism
-Frank J. Lechner; 10. American Society and the Societal Community: Talcott
Parsons, Citizenship and Diversity -Giuseppe Sciortino; 11. Parsons and
Nisbet: Two Versions of Sociological Communitarianism -Hon-Fai Chen