塔尔科特·帕森斯(Talcott Parsons,1902—1979),美国社会学家。他以其结构功能主义与社会行动理论而知名,被认为是20世纪社会学界影响最为巨大的学者之一。他在《社会行动的结构》(1937)、《社会系统》(1951)、《现代社会的结构与过程》(1960)、《行动理论与人类状况》(1978)等著作中,把结构功能主义发展成为一个对...
Parsons is also well known for his idea that every group or society tends to fulfill four "functional imperatives". adaptation to the physical and social environment; goal attainment, which is the need to define primary goals and enlist individuals to strive to attain these goals; ...
four function paradigm emergence - writing The Social System, Parsons refining concept of function in social systemsParsons’ understating of differentiation - in labor, consumer and capital marketspolitical double interchange - sharing with double interchange, business firms and households...
Parsons looks at social stratification as both unavoidable and functional for the society.it is unavoidable because it drives from the shared values which are the necessary part of all social systems. It is functional because it serves to integrate various groups in society. Finally, inequalities of...
Parsons was also interested in medical sociology and the professions in general. In recent years he has been criticized for understating the importance of social conflict. Among his writings are The Structure of Social Action (1937), The Social System (1951), Structure and Process in Modern ...
There is little doubt that Talcott Parsons is a major figure in the development of the sociology of health and illness. Whether he is the major figure in the sense of being the founder has been the subject of hotly contested debate. Now that several deca
Parsons was a prolific, if notoriously abstruse writer, producing more than a dozen major books and scores of articles on a variety of (mainly theoretical) subjects. His most influential works areThe Structure of Social Action(1937) andThe Social System(1951). Parsons died in Munich on 8 May...
ParadigmThe Marshall Lectures and Economy and SocietyFamily and SocializationAmerican SocietyThe Polity, Power, and Symbolic Media of InterchangeThe Theory of Social EvolutionThe General Action SystemThe American Societal CommunityThe Human ConditionApplied WritingsCritiques of Parsons's TheoryParsons's Legacy...
Yet, toward the end of his career, he declared that he had done a good deal of work in that field, particularly in regard to the study of mass phenomena. In this article I examine Parsons's social psychology of mass phenomena and demonstrate that it was greatly influenced by Freudian ...
Parsons was a prolific, if notoriously abstruse writer, producing more than a dozen major books and scores of articles on a variety of (mainly theoretical) subjects. His most influential works are The Structure of Social Action (1937) and The Social System (1951). Parsons died in Munich on ...