النسق الاجتماعي (The Social System)

مقدمة

Published in 1951, the same year as the collaborative Toward a General Theory of Action, The Social System is Parsons’s most detailed account of how societies hold together. A social system consists of interactions structured by roles and institutionalised norms; through socialisation individuals internalise shared values, and mechanisms of social control deal with deviance. Parsons introduces the “pattern variables”, pairs of alternatives such as affectivity versus affective neutrality or particularism versus universalism, to classify social relationships. A chapter on modern medical practice defines the “sick role”, which became a basic concept of medical sociology. Critics such as C. Wright Mills and Ralf Dahrendorf objected that the theory could not account for conflict and change.

الصلات

يستند إلى

• بنية الفعل الاجتماعي (The Structure of Social Action)1937 · تالكوت بارسونز

جرى تناوله في

• النظم الاجتماعية (Soziale Systeme)1984 · نيكلاس لوهمان

انتُقد في

• المخيلة السوسيولوجية (The Sociological Imagination)1959 · رايت ميلز
• تكوين المجتمع (The Constitution of Society)1984 · أنتوني غيدنز

مزيد من أعمال تالكوت بارسونز

• 1937بنية الفعل الاجتماعي (The Structure of Social Action)