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Author Parsons, Talcott, 1902-1979

Title Action theory and the human condition / Talcott Parsons
Published New York : Free Press, ©1978

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 464 pages)
Series Social theory.
Contents 1. Sociology of health and illness and related topics: The sick role and the role of the physician reconsidered -- Research with human subjects and the "professional complex" -- Health and disease: a sociological and action perspective -- The interpretation of dreams by Sigmund Freud -- 2. Sociology of higher education: The future of the university -- Some considerations on the growth of the American system of higher education and research -- The university "bundle": a study of the balance between differentiation and integration -- Stability and change in the America university -- 3. Sociology of religion: Christianity -- Durkheim on religion revisited: another look at The elementary forms of the religious life -- Belief, unbelief, and disbelief -- The "gift of life" and its reciprocation -- Religion in postindustrial America: the problem of secularization -- 4. The human condition: Death in the Western world -- A paradigm of the human condition
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 434-450) and index
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Subject Sociology.
Action theory.
Social medicine.
Educational sociology.
Social Medicine
Sociology
sociology.
Action theory
Educational sociology
Social medicine
Sociology
Actietheorie.
Sociologie.
Form Electronic book