Abstract:‘Spencer is dead’, wrote Talcott Parsons at the beginning of The Structureof Social Action, ‘but who killed him and how ? This is the problem’. In this study, which was both the foundation of Parsons’ structural-functionalism and a major reinterpretation of the history of modern social science, Spencer stood for a vanquished schoolof social thought. He represented positivism at the suicidal extreme where its naive individualism fell apart, paradoxically passing over into its antithesis, a biological determinis… Show more
“…(1979,p.1) Parsons' concern with the length of his manuscript was not altogether unrealistic. Koenig 1968;Liebersohn 1982). But this problem cannot be the whole story.…”
“…(1979,p.1) Parsons' concern with the length of his manuscript was not altogether unrealistic. Koenig 1968;Liebersohn 1982). But this problem cannot be the whole story.…”
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