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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Talcott Parsons"”.
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Concepts of class and stratification: essays on Max Weber, Talcott Parsons and Karl Marx
<p>The division of society into classes and the determination of social life according to the exigencies of this division has provided, since the middle of the nineteenth century, the basis for the whole of the self-conception of Marxist social science. Class as an historical presupposition, as a …
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Teoría, Sociedad y Poder en Talcott Parsons, C. Wright Mills, Jürgen Habermas y Anthony Giddens : una contribución a la Teoría Social contemporánea
Fil: Fernández Cardoso, Sara. Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales; Argentina
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Testing Gouldner's coming crisis theory: on the state of contemporary sociological theory
… figures of four competing theory groups, namely Talcott Parsons (functionalism), George Homans (exchange theory), Erving Goffman (the dramaturgical wing of symbolic interactionism), and Harold Garfinkel (ethnomethodology). The findings provide illuminations of both the past and current state of …
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Iron sharpens iron : member experiences of collaboration in the Texas Hunger Initiative.
… of the dissertation and grounds the work in Talcott Parsons's theories. Chapter Two builds on Jones's (2006) work exploring member characteristics in relationship to resource dependence and social network theories. Organizations reported a mean of 12 collaborative partners and being impacted …
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Revisiting Habermas's colonisation thesis: towards a communicative transformation of the theory of reification
… theories of Axel Honneth, Niklas Luhmann, and Talcott Parsons, this thesis is composed of several critical excurses expanding Habermas’s conceptual framework. These excurses principally involve: an in-depth treatment of the theory of the economy; a critical appraisal of Habermas’s media theory; …
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Ideas, Interests, and Institutions in Ralf Dahrendorf's Materialist Liberalism
… to overcome the social-scientific ideas of Talcott Parsons and other structural-functionalists and to recast sociology as a causality-oriented discipline that takes interests and social structure rather than ideas and values as its subject. This also affected Dahrendorf’s academic politics. …
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Transformation in the forestry sector and its implication for women in Zululand
… for women, the work of sociologists, such as, Talcott Parsons, Marx and Engels and the Feminist perspective provide an understanding of the challenges faced by women in taking on social roles hitherto reserved for men in a patriarchal society. Feminist perspectives have shown how male dominance …