After Parsons--a theory of social action for the 21st century
By: Renée C. Fox, Victor Lidz, Harold J. Bershady, editors.
Contributors: Parsons, Talcott, 1902-1979.; Fox, Renée C. 1928-; Lidz, Victor M.; Bershady, Harold J.
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
Subjects: Parsons, Talcott, -- 1902-1979 -- Congresses; Social action -- Congresses; Sociology -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: "Chapters ... written for a conference held on December 6 to 7, 2002, at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York City, to mark the hundredth anniversary of the birth of ... Talcott Parsons"--P. xi.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Parson's economic sociology and the development of economic sociology / Neil J. Smelser; title: Looming catastrophe: how and why "law and economics" undermines fiduciary duties in corporate law / Mark Gould; title: Social order as communication: Parson's theory on the move from moral consensus to trust / Harald Wenzel; title: Affect in social life / Harold J. Bershady; title: Contradictions in the societal community: the promise and disappointment of Parson's concept / Jeffrey C. Alexander; title: How different can we be? Parsons's societal community, pluralism, and the multicultural debate / Giuseppe Sciortino; title: God, nation, and self in America: some tensions between Parsons and Bellah / Robert N. Bellah; title: Modernity and its endless discontents / Donald N. Levine; title: Culture as a subsystem of action: autonomous and heteronomous functions / Helmut Staubmann; title: Rationalists, fetishists, and art lovers: action theory and the comparative analysis of high cultural institutions / Jeremy Tanner; title: The Weberian Talcott Parsons: sociological theory in three decades of American history / Uta Gerhardt; title: From Amherst to Heidelberg: on the origins of Parsons's conception of culture / Charles Camic; title: Parsons and the human condition / Edward A. Tiryakian; title: What do American bioethics and Médecins Sans Frontières have in common? The relevance of Talcott Parsons's theory of universalism, particularism, and modernity / Renée C. Fox; title: "Social evolution" in the light of the human-condition paradigm / Victor M. Lidz.