Talcott Parsons | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-03-25

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00:02:13 1 Early life
00:03:57 2 Education
00:04:06 2.1 Amherst College
00:06:32 2.2 London School of Economics
00:07:31 2.3 University of Heidelberg
00:10:05 3 Early academic career
00:10:15 3.1 Harvard
00:10:23 3.1.1 Economics Department
00:11:54 3.1.2 Harvard Sociology Department
00:15:59 3.2 Neoclassical economics vs. institutionalists
00:17:28 3.3 Anti-Nazism
00:19:21 4 Second World War
00:21:50 4.1 Intellectual exchanges
00:29:26 4.2 Taking charge at Harvard
00:31:34 5 Postwar
00:31:43 5.1 Russian Research Center
00:32:54 5.2 Anticommunism
00:35:30 5.3 American exceptionalism
00:37:42 5.4 Defender of modernity
00:39:07 5.5 Harvard Department of Social Relations
00:42:14 5.6 iThe Social System/i and iToward a General Theory of Action/i
00:46:01 5.7 Subscriber to systems theory
00:48:34 5.8 McCarthy era
00:50:35 5.9 iFamily, Socialization and Interaction Process/i
00:53:24 5.10 Center of Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
00:55:11 6 Later career
00:55:20 6.1 Public conferences
00:56:51 6.2 Criticism of theories
00:58:46 6.3 Democrat supporter
01:00:01 6.4 Modernization theory influence
01:01:24 6.5 Interest in religion
01:03:41 6.6 Criticism of Riesman
01:05:40 6.7 Political power and social influence
01:07:46 6.8 Contacts with other scholars
01:09:14 6.9 Opposition to Frankfurt School
01:10:27 6.10 Ethnicity, kinship, and diffuse solidarity
01:16:45 6.11 Systems theory on biological and social systems
01:18:28 6.12 Sociology of law
01:19:36 6.13 Criticism of Bendix
01:21:40 6.14 Study of US university
01:22:55 7 Retirement
01:23:47 7.1 Brown seminars
01:24:47 7.2 Refinement of AGIL model
01:26:05 7.3 Sick role theory
01:27:28 7.4 Criticism of broken covenant theory
01:28:44 7.5 Symbolic interactionism
01:29:53 7.6 Review of Piaget
01:31:29 7.7 Lectures in Japan
01:36:00 8 Death
01:36:29 9 Work
01:38:37 9.1 iThe Structure of Social Action/i
01:39:56 9.2 Action theory
01:41:41 9.3 Relations to cybernetics and system theory
01:44:08 9.4 Unified concept of social science
01:47:17 9.5 Parsons and Habermas
01:48:24 9.6 General theory
01:52:46 9.7 AGIL paradigm
01:57:44 9.8 Social evolutionism
01:59:10 9.9 Pattern variables
02:00:06 10 Legacy
02:01:20 11 Selected bibliography
02:01:30 11.1 Author
02:02:21 11.2 Compilations
02:03:02 11.3 Translations



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Talcott Parsons (1902–1979) was an American sociologist of the classical tradition, best known for his social action theory and structural functionalism. Parsons is considered one of the most influential figures in sociology in the 20th century. After earning a PhD in economics, he served on the faculty at Harvard University from 1927 to 1929. In 1930, he was among the first professors in its new sociology department.Based on empirical data, Parsons' social action theory was the first broad, systematic, and generalizable theory of social systems developed in the United States and Europe. Some of Parsons' largest contributions to sociology in the English-speaking world were his translations of Max Weber's work and his analyses of works by Weber, Émile Durkheim, and Vilfredo Pareto. Their work heavily influenced Parsons' view and was the foundation for his social action theory. Parsons viewed voluntaristic action through the lens of the cultural values and social structures that constrain choices and ultimately determine all social actions, as opposed to actions that are determined based on internal psychological processes.Although Parsons is generally considered a structural functionalist, towards the end of his career, in 1975, he published an article that stated that "functional" and "structural functionalist" were inappropriate ways to describe the character of his theory.From the 1970s, a new generation of sociologi ...