Current Folklore in the Criticisms of Parsonian Action Theory*
作者:
JONATHAN H. TURNER,
LEONARD BEEGHLEY,
期刊:
Sociological Inquiry
(WILEY Available online 1974)
卷期:
Volume 44,
issue 1
页码: 47-55
ISSN:0038-0245
年代: 1974
DOI:10.1111/j.1475-682X.1974.tb00722.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
This paper examines the often repeated assertion that Parsons abandoned the notion of “voluntarism” in favor of “macrofunctionalism” or ”behavioristic naturalism” and that the Parsonian scheme therefore reveals marked discontinuity. When Parsons’strategy for theory building is appreciated, this prevalent assumption proves to be incorrect. In fact, the Parsonian action scheme evidences a considerable degree of continuity from 1937 to the present. While a prevalent piece of sociological folklore is refuted by a careful examination of the Parsonian theory building strategy, a number of significant problems in following this strategy are f
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