Alexander, Jeffrey

Modern Reconstruction of Classical Thought (Theoretical Logic in Sociology)/ - New York: Routledge, 2014.

Chapter 1|7 pages
Theoretical Controversy and the Problematics of Parsonian Interpretation

Chapter 2|38 pages
The Early Period: Interpretation and the Presuppositional Movement toward Multidimensionality

Chapter 3|27 pages
The Middle Period: Specifying the Multidimensional Argument

Chapter 4|46 pages
The Later Period (1): The Interchange Model and Parsons' Final Approach to Multidimensional Theory

Chapter 5|32 pages
The Later Period (2): Socialization, Social Change, and the Systemic and Historical Bases of Individual Freedom

Chapter 6|19 pages
The Methodological Error (1): Neopositivism and the Formalization of Parsons' Theory

Chapter 7|42 pages
The Methodological Error (2): The Neopositivist Strategy and the Conflation of Presuppositional Logic with Specific Commitments

Chapter 8|19 pages
The Presuppositional Error (1): Sociological Idealism and the Attack on Instrumental Order in the Early and Middle Work

Chapter 9|46 pages
The Presuppositional Error (2): Idealist Reduction in the Later Writings

Chapter 10|12 pages
Conclusion: Paradigm Revision and "Parsonianism"

Chapter 1|12 pages
The Conflation among Theoretical Levels in Parsonian Interpretation

Chapter 2|7 pages
Reduction within the Presuppositional Level of Parsonian Interpretation

Chapter 3|3 pages
The Sources of Misinterpretation in Parsons' Theory Itself



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