000 00399nam a2200145Ia 4500
999 _c177393
_d177393
020 _a9781409427674
040 _cCUS
082 _a301.092
_bGER/S
245 4 _aThe Social Thought of Talcott Parsons/
_bmethodology and american ethos
_cGerhardt,Uta
250 _a1st.ed.
260 _aEngland:
_bAshgate,
_c2011.
300 _a456
505 _aContents: Preface; Part I Themes: Positioning the Parsonian project. Part II Tenets: A product of modern European civilization: translating into English Max Weber's Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus; A charter for modern sociology: the social system and the ethos of American democracy. Part III Dialogs: Encounters with the Frankfurt school: a story of exile, estrangement and epistemology; Beyond sociological imagination: the controversy with C. Wright Mills over power and knowledge; '...will not down...': the clash with utilitarianism in the name of the American societal community. Part IV Positions: The Parsons project today: social thought for the 21st century; Epilogue; Bibliography; Indexes.
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