Research Catalog

Title

Social action systems : foundation and synthesis in sociological theory / Thomas J. Fararo.

Author

Fararo, Thomas J.

Publication

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2001.

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Details

Description

x, 319 p.; 25 cm.

Subject

• Parsons, Talcott, 1902-1979
• Homans, George Caspar, 1910-1989
• Homans, George Caspar, 1910-1989
• Parsons, Talcott, 1902-1979
• Social systems
• Action theory
• Sociology > Philosophy
• Handlungstheorie
• Soziologische Theorie

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-312) and index.

Contents

General Theoretical Sociology in Context -- The Historical Phases of Sociological Theory -- The Three Components of Sociological Theory -- Theory Structures and Cognitive Standards -- Process and Social Reality -- Classical Foundations -- The Structure of Mead's Relational Process Thought -- The Structure of Marx's Relational Process Thought -- Dynamic Networks and the Structure of Durkheim's Thought -- Weber's Social Action Foundations of Sociology -- Form and Process in Simmel's Foundations of Sociology -- Foundations of Analytical Realism -- The Common Intellectual Background -- Materialism, Idealism, and Process Philosophy -- Whitehead's Process Philosophy -- Pareto's General Theoretical Sociology -- Two Postclassical Paths of Synthesis -- The Structural Analysis of Social Action Systems -- Conceptual Schemes -- Positivistic and Idealistic Traditions of Social Theory -- Voluntarism and the Action Frame of Reference -- The Branches of the Theory of Action Systems -- The Problem of Social Order -- Transition to Structural-Functional Theory -- The Analytical Theory of Social Systems -- Introduction: The Path Parsons Did Not Take -- Orientation to the Approach -- The Analytical Theory -- The Theory and the System Model -- A Structural-Functional Theory of Social Systems -- Three Types of Systems -- The Actor-Situation Frame of Reference -- Interpenetration: The Institutionalization of Culture -- Interpenetration: The Internalization of Culture -- The Matching Principle -- The Pattern Variables as Parameters.

ISBN

• 027597362X
• 9780275973629

LCCN

• 2001021664
• 9780275973629

OCLC

• ocm46619095
• 46619095
• SCSB-8804095

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library