TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alexander, Jeffrey
TI  - Modern Reconstruction of Classical Thought (Theoretical Logic in Sociology)
SN  - 9781315815787
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Social Sciences - Sociology
KW  - Social Policy
N1  - 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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