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DOI:10.1111/j.1475-682X.1991.tb00260.x

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年代:1991

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DOI:10.1111/j.1475-682X.1991.tb00261.x

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年代:1991

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DOI:10.1111/j.1475-682X.1991.tb00262.x

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年代:1991

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The publication of the Marshall Lectures is part of the current upswing of interest in what is happening at the boundaries between the economy and society as well as between economics and sociology. Parsons welcomed the opportunity to give the Marshall Lectures because he wanted to apply his system of action to other areas within the social sciences. Parsons’argument in the lectures, however, was too general and his interpretation of Keynes was incomplete.Economy and Sociey(Parsons and Smelser 1956) represents in these and a few other aspects a clear advance in Parsons’think

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DOI:10.1111/j.1475-682X.1991.tb00263.x

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Parsons' Marshall Lectures were an important and still are a relevant contribution to the critique of the utilitarian, rationalist, radically individualist paradigm which still dominates scholarship, especially economics, today. Parsons advised economists to stop ignoring the broader societal context of which the economy is only asub‐system; economic actors are not impersonal, fully independent individuals but should be viewed as people with internalized moral and social values, values which cannot be accounted for as mere external, environmental constraints. Parsons, however, paid little attention to the role of power in the market. Socio‐economics incorporates issues addressed in the Marshall Lectures, treats the leverage of interventionist power (large corporations and labor unions) as significant, and seeks to grow as a coherent alternative to the neoclassical parad

ISSN:0038-0245    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-682X.1991.tb00264.x

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年代:1991

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The occasion of the publication of Parsons’Marshall Lectures is used to demonstrate Parsons’prescience and the contemporary relevance of his ideas. It is argued that these lectures are similar in intent to the recent work of Amitai Etzioni and his objective of creating the field of socio‐economics. The two works are compared and their relative strengths and weaknesses discussed. Parsons is shown to be well ahead of his time, not only in his effort to integrate social and economic concerns, but in the broader integrative intent of his overall theory. While Parsons was not able to begin to engineer a rapprochement with economics, such an intellectual integration may be more possible today because economics appears to be in greater crisis and sociology seems to have more to offer to disaffected econo

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DOI:10.1111/j.1475-682X.1991.tb00265.x

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年代:1991

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The paper seeks to demonstrate the inherently practical intent of the Marshall Lectures. It argues that Parsons' views on the relationship between sociology and economics were presupposed by his broader vision of how the social sciences could contribute to the successful functioning of the social order. This conception of a new division of labor in the social sciences arose from Parsons' concern with the shortcomings of both utilitarian economics and Marxism. Evidence from Parsons' writings of the 1930s and 1940s is provided in support of these claims.

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DOI:10.1111/j.1475-682X.1991.tb00266.x

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年代:1991

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In the Marshall Lectures and inEconomy and SocietyParsons endeavored to demonstrate that economic theory was a special case in the general theory of social systems. He then attempted to show that the parameters of macroeconomic theory could be analyzed as variables within a general social systems theory. But Parsons’economic sociology failed to redeem its promise. He did not succeed in using macro‐economic theory as the basis for the formulation of a propositional macrosociology; nor did he sociologically reconstruct the logic of utilitarian, neoclassical economic the

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DOI:10.1111/j.1475-682X.1991.tb00267.x

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年代:1991

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Parsons’theory of economy and society has reemerged as an important reference point in the development of social theory. This paper focuses on Parsons’contribution to a possible theoretical rapproachment between economic and social theory. The issue addressed is the indifference of economists to the project for theoretical reunification announced in the Marshall Lectures. The author argues that Parsons’understanding of economic theory was seriously incomplete, while his assumption of a shared commitment between the two disciplines to develop a general synthetic theory was highly dubious. At the same time, Parsons’attempt at rapproachment remains relevant in a contemporary situation where many social scientists propose an economistic annexation of sociology by rational choice

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DOI:10.1111/j.1475-682X.1991.tb00268.x

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DOI:10.1111/j.1475-682X.1991.tb00269.x

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年代:1991

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