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Input (English): Context: Talcott Parsons (December 13, 1902  May 8, 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 the development of sociology in the 20th century. After earning a PhD in economics, he served on the faculty at Harvard University from 1927 to 1979, and in 1930, was among the first professors in its newly created sociology department., Marion Joseph Levy Jr. ( December 12 , 1918 -- May 26 , 2002 ) was an American sociologist noted for his work on modernization theory . Born in Galveston , Texas , Levy received his doctorate in sociology from Harvard , studying under Talcott Parsons . Levy was hired at Princeton in 1947 and would work there for the remainder of his life . Levy was an advocate of structural - functionalism in sociology . His two - volume Modernization and the Structure of Societies was a systematic statement of modernization theory . Levy also produced analytic works on Chinese and Japanese history . Levy was perhaps best known outside academia for an extremely short book , Levy 's Laws of the Disillusionment of the True Liberal . The cynical `` laws '' , originally numbering six and ultimately totaling 11 , became a commonly quoted source of condensed sociopolitical wisdom ., Modernization theory is used to explain the process of modernization within societies. Modernization refers to a model of a progressive transition from a 'pre-modern' or 'traditional' to a 'modern' society. Modernization theory originated from the ideas of German sociologist Max Weber (1864-1920), which provided the basis for the modernization paradigm developed by Harvard sociologist Talcott Parsons (1902-1979). The theory looks at the internal factors of a country while assuming that with assistance, "traditional" countries can be brought to development in the same manner more developed countries have been. Moderniziation theory was a dominant paradigm in the social sciences in the 1950s and 1960s, then went into a deep eclipse. It made a comeback after 1990 but remains a controversial model., Subject: marion j. levy jr., Relation: educated_at, Options: (A) harvard (B) harvard university
Output (English): harvard university