American Sociologists - Talcott Parsons, Vladimir Tism Neanu, W. E. B. Du Bois, Jane Addams, Ken Wilber, Hamid Dabashi, Eugen Rosenstock-Huess (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 189. Chapters: Talcott Parsons, Vladimir Tism neanu, W. E. B. Du Bois, Jane Addams, Ken Wilber, Hamid Dabashi, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Herbert A. Simon, Barry Wellman, Amitai Etzioni, Lester Frank Ward, Robert K. Merton, Thorstein Veblen, George Herbert Mead, Huey P. Newton, Ronald Anderson, Steve Fuller (sociologist), Charles Murray (author), Paul Goodman (writer), C. Wright Mills, Immanuel Wallerstein, Harold Garfinkel, Ronald Weitzer, Herbert Marcuse, Neil Postman, John Bellamy Foster, William Graham Sumner, Jessie Bernard, David Altheide, Howard S. Becker, Andrej Gruba i, Herbert Blumer, Charles Tilly, George C. Homans, Paul Lazarsfeld, Nicholas A. Christakis, Ronald Enroth, Vladimir Shlapentokh, Ira Reiss, Todd Joseph Miles Holden, James G. March, Elaine Showalter, Steven M. Cohen, Nathan Glazer, Morris Janowitz, Gordon Hirabayashi, Israel Kugler, Neil Abercrombie, Gary T. Marx. Excerpt: Talcott Parsons (December 13, 1902 - May 8, 1979) was an American sociologist who served on the faculty of Harvard University from 1927 to 1973. Parsons developed a general theory for the study of society called action theory, based on the methodological principle of voluntarism and the epistemological principle of analytical realism. The theory attempted to establish a balance between two major methodological traditions: the utilitarian-positivist and hermeneutic-idealistic traditions. For Parsons, voluntarism established a third alternative between these two. More than a theory of society, Parsons presented a theory of social evolution and a concrete interpretation of the "drives" and directions of world history. Parsons analyzed the work of Emile Durkheim and Vilfredo Pareto and evaluated their contributions through the paradigm of voluntaristic action. Parsons was also largely responsible for introducing...