TALCOT PARSONS
Peter Hamilton
Tavestock Pubn, 1983, PB
OK condition, Back corner bent

Through the wide range of his written work, and the very large number of collaborative interdisciplinary enterprises with which he has been involved, Talcott Parsons has contributed greatly to the contemporary form of sociology, anthropology, political science, economics, and social psychology. Indeed, many of the concepts which social scientists now take for granted, for example, role, institution, and internalisation, received their first meaningful theoretical articulation in Parsons work.
Peter Hamilton examines this central achievement, from Parons original, brilliant synthesis of existing strands of sociological and economic thought, to his development of a general systems theory. He provides a critical exposition of the main facets of Parsonian theory, and assesses the contribution of Parsons work in the light of current debates about the nature of social theory.