सामाजिक प्रणाली

परिचय

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.

संबंध

जिस पर आधारित

• सामाजिक कर्म की संरचना1937 · टैल्कॉट पार्सन्स

जिसमें आगे बढ़ाया गया

• सामाजिक प्रणालियाँ1984 · निकलास लूमन

जिसमें आलोचना की गई

• द सोशियोलॉजिकल इमैजिनेशन1959 · सी. राइट मिल्स
• समाज की रचना1984 · एंथनी गिडेंस

टैल्कॉट पार्सन्स की और कृतियाँ

• 1937सामाजिक कर्म की संरचना