In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.

This man collaborated with Gerald Platt and Neil Smelser on The American University and with Smelser alone on Economy and Society. He advocated the theory of inevitable rough social equilibrium and outlined the four goals of any ordering of a society in the AGIL paradigm, which includes latency and goal attainment. Credited with introducing Vilfredo Pareto to American readers, this mans school of thought was known as structural functionalism. For 10 points, name this author of The Social System and The Structure of Social Action, the dominant figure in mid-twentieth-century American sociology.
Social Science