American society
Subtitle: a theory of the societal community
By: Talcott Parsons ; edited and introduced by Giuseppe Sciortino ; foreword by Jeffrey Alexander.
Contributors: Sciortino, Giuseppe, 1963-
Series: The yale cultural sociology series
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Boulder, CO
Language: eng
Number of pages: 524
ISBN-13: 9781594512278
Subjects: Sociology; Social history; Communities; United States -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The societal community and its environments; title: Some highlights of the historical background; title: Values and other structural features of the societal community; title: Some substantive structure of the emerging societal community; title: Social class as axis of cleavage-integration; title: The gemeinshaft complex in American society : ethnicity; title: The gemeinshaft complex II : kinship, religion, style of life, education; title: Communication and collective decision making : the mass media and the political process (three fragments); title: Individuality and institutionalized individualism.