| Edition |
Revised [that is 2d] edition. |
| Description |
459 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
A Free Press paperback ; 92403
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| Contents |
Introduction -- I. The role of ideas in social action (1938) -- II. The professions and social structure (1939) -- III. The motivation of economic activities (1940) -- IV. An analytical approach to the theory of social stratification (1940) -- V. Age and sex in the social structure of the United States (1942) -- VI. Democracy and social structure in pre-Nazi Germany (1942) -- vii. Some sociological aspects of the Fascist movements (1942) -- VIII. Propaganda and social control (1942) -- IX. The kinship system of the contemporary United States (1943) -- X. The theoretical development of the sociology of religion (1944) -- XI. The present position and prospects of systematic theory in sociology (1945) -- XII. The problem of controlled institutional change (1945) -- XIII. Population and the social structure of Japan (1946) -- XIV. Certain primary sources and patterns of aggression in the social structure of the Western world (1947) -- XV. Social classes and class conflict in the light of recent sociological theory (1949) -- XVI. Psychoanalysis and the social structure (1950) -- XVII. The prospects of sociological theory (1950) -- XVIII. A sociologist looks at the legal profession (1952) -- XIX. A revised analytical approach to the theory of social stratification (1953) -- Bibliography of Talcott Parsons -- Index. |
| Note |
"First Free Press paperback edition." |
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Includes index. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. "Bibliography of Talcott Parsons": pages 440-445. |
| Subject |
Sociology.
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| Added Title |
Sociological theory.
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| ISBN |
pbk. |
|
$2.45 |
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