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Talcott Parsons, a young Harvard instructor who had taken his doctorate in Heidelberg and translated Weber’s Protestant Ethic (1930), published this first book in 1937. It starts from Hobbes’s problem of order – how is a stable society possible if individuals pursue their own interests? – and argues that four different thinkers, the economists Alfred Marshall and Vilfredo Pareto, Durkheim and Weber, had independently moved away from utilitarian and positivist theories towards a shared “voluntaristic” theory of action. Its basic unit is the “unit act”: an actor, an end, a situation of means and conditions, and norms that guide choice. The book helped establish Durkheim and Weber as classics in America, though critics argued that it fitted them to Parsons’s own theory.

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• समाजशास्त्रीय पद्धति के नियम1895 · एमिल दुरकेम
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• सामाजिक प्रणाली1951 · टैल्कॉट पार्सन्स

टैल्कॉट पार्सन्स की और कृतियाँ

• 1951सामाजिक प्रणाली