"Chapters ... written for a conference held on December 6 to 7, 2002,
at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York City, to mark the
hundredth anniversary of the birth of ... Talcott Parsons"--P. xi.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Parson's economic sociology and the development of economic sociology
/Neil J. Smelser --Looming catastrophe: how and why "law and
economics" undermines fiduciary duties in corporate law /Mark Gould
--Social order as communication: Parson's theory on the move from
moral consensus to trust /Harald Wenzel --Affect in social life
/Harold J. Bershady --Contradictions in the societal community: the
promise and disappointment of Parson's concept /Jeffrey C. Alexander
--How different can we be? Parsons's societal community, pluralism,
and the multicultural debate /Giuseppe Sciortino --God, nation, and
self in America: some tensions between Parsons and Bellah /Robert N.
Bellah --Modernity and its endless discontents /Donald N. Levine
--Culture as a subsystem of action: autonomous and heteronomous
functions /Helmut Staubmann --Rationalists, fetishists, and art
lovers: action theory and the comparative analysis of high cultural
institutions /Jeremy Tanner --Weberian Talcott Parsons: sociological
theory in three decades of American history /Uta Gerhardt --From
Amherst to Heidelberg: on the origins of Parsons's conception of
culture /Charles Camic --Parsons and the human condition /Edward A.
Tiryakian --What do American bioethics and Médecins Sans Frontières
have in common? The relevance of Talcott Parsons's theory of
universalism, particularism, and modernity /Renée C. Fox --"Social
evolution" in the light of the human-condition paradigm /Victor M.
Lidz.
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