社会系统

简介

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.

联系

承接了

• 社会行动的结构1937 · 塔尔科特·帕森斯

被承接于

• 社会系统1984 · 尼克拉斯·卢曼

被批评于

• 社会学的想象力1959 · C. 赖特·米尔斯
• 社会的构成1984 · 安东尼·吉登斯

塔尔科特·帕森斯 的更多作品

• 1937社会行动的结构