Modern Reconstruction of Classical Thought

Talcott Parsons

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Sociology
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Author: Jeffrey C. Alexander ISBN: 9781317808602
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: April 3, 2014
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Jeffrey C. Alexander
ISBN: 9781317808602
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: April 3, 2014
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

In this volume the author maintains that sociology must learn to combine the insights of both Durkheim and Marx and that it can only do so on the presuppositional ground that Weber set forth. Alexander maintains that the idealist and materialist traditions must be transformed into analytic dimensions of multidimensional and synthetic theory. This volume focusses on the writing of Talcott Parsons, the only modern thinker who can be considered a true peer of the classical founders, and examines his own profoundly ambivalent attempt to carry out this analytic transformation.

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In this volume the author maintains that sociology must learn to combine the insights of both Durkheim and Marx and that it can only do so on the presuppositional ground that Weber set forth. Alexander maintains that the idealist and materialist traditions must be transformed into analytic dimensions of multidimensional and synthetic theory. This volume focusses on the writing of Talcott Parsons, the only modern thinker who can be considered a true peer of the classical founders, and examines his own profoundly ambivalent attempt to carry out this analytic transformation.

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