社会行动的结构

简介

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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• 社会学方法的准则1895 · 埃米尔·涂尔干
• 新教伦理与资本主义精神1905 · 马克斯·韦伯

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• 社会系统1951 · 塔尔科特·帕森斯

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