| Description |
240 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Key issues in sociological theory ; 1 |
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Key issues in sociological theory ; 1
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Introduction - Jeffrey Alexander -- Part One: Interpretation And Theoretical Boundaries -- The Practical Groundwork for Critical Theory - David Sciulli -- Bringing Parsons to Habermas (and vice-versa) -- Prolegomena to Any Future Theory of Societal Crisis - Mark Gould -- Predicting Technological Innovation - Ino Rossi -- A Dialectical Reinterpretation of the Four-Function Paradigm -- Part Two: Explanation And Social Change -- Systematic Qualities and Boundaries of Societies - S N Eisenstadt -- Some Theoretical Considerations -- Evaluating the Model of Structural Differentiation in Relation to Educational Change in the Nineteenth Century - Neil J Smelser -- Uneven Structural Differentiation - Paul Colomy -- Toward a Comparative Approach -- Modernity and Its Discontents - Frank J Lechner -- Revitalization Syndromes in Action-Theoretical Perspective -- Part Three: Politics And Responsibility -- Totalitarian and Liberal Democracy - Jeffrey Prager -- Two Types of Modern Political Orders -- Beyond Parsons' Theory of the Professions - Bernard Barber -- Differentiation, Consensus, and Conflict - Richard Munch -- Reflections on Neofunctionalism in Smelser, Colomy, Lechner, and Barber |
| Summary |
Neofunctionalism is the first volume in the series Key Issues in Sociological Theory and takes account of the developments in functionalist theory over the last twenty years. Reconsidering the work of Parsons, Merton, Homans et al during the 1930s and 1940s, Alexander suggests that functionalism is more than just a set of concepts, methods, models or ideologies. He argues that it is a tradition, that it has emerged from recent critical reflection as more a broad intellectual tendency than a theory. The papers in this volume, all original contributions by scholars from different sociological backgrounds, exemplify these tendencies |
| Analysis |
Functionalism (Social sciences) |
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Sociology United States |
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Sociology Theories |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies |
| Subject |
Parsons, Talcott, 1902-1979 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Parsons, Talcott, 1902-1979.
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Functionalism (Social sciences)
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Sociology -- United States.
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| Author |
Alexander, Jeffrey C., 1947-
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| LC no. |
85008264 |
| ISBN |
0803924968 |
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0803924976 (paperback) |
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