This man authored Eisenhower's quote that "Freedom means the freedom to fail as well as to succeed."
This man authored Eisenhower's quote that "Freedom means the freedom to fail as well as to succeed." His work was later revived by Jeffrey Alexander under the name of "neofunctionalism." He'd gone out of favor for his overarching "grand theory," which divided society into the four "functional imperatives" of adaptation, attainment, integration and latency. Better known is his advocacy of a structural-functional analysis of society, dividing social stratification into ascribed and achieved status, as seen in 1951's The Social System. FTP, name this American sociologist, who sought to derive from Weber, Pareto and Durkheim an "action theory" in his The Structure of Social Action.
This man authored Eisenhower's quote that "Freedom means the freedom to fail as well as to succeed."
Talcott {Parsons}