Jeffrey Alexander

Modern Reconstruction of Classical Thought (eBook, ePUB)

Talcott Parsons

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317808602
• Artikelnr.: 49354549

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Inhaltsangabe

Preface. 1. Theoretical Controversy 2. The Early Period: Interpretation and
the Presuppositional Movement Toward Multidimensionality 3. The Middle
Period: Specifying the Multidimensional Argument 4. The Later Period (1):
The Interchange Model and Parsons' Final Approach to Multidimensional
theory 5. The later Period (2): Socialization, Social change and the
Systemic and Historical Bases of Individual Freedom 6. The Methodological
Error (1): Neopositivism and the Formalization of Parsons' Theory 7. The
Methodological Error (2): Neopositivist Strategy and the Conflation of
Presuppositional Logic with Specific Commitments 8. The Presuppositional
Error (1): Sociological Idealism and the Attack on Instrumental Order in
the Early and Middle Work 9. The Presuppositional Error (2): Idealist
Reduction in the Later Writings 10. Conclusion: 'Paradigm Revision' and
Parsonianism. Appendix: Conflation and Reduction in the Interpretation of
Parsonian Theory. Notes. Works of Parsons. Indices.