Talcott Parsons Today

A. Javier Trevino is an assistant professor of sociology at Wheaton College.

• Chapter 1 ForewordChapter 2 Introduction: the Theory and Legacy of Talcott ParsonsChapter 3 Parsons and Simmel at Harvard: Scientific Paradigms and Organizational CultureChapter 4 The Place of Max Weber in the Post-Structure Writings of Talcott ParsonsChapter 5 Elias and Parsons: Two Transformations of the Problem-Historical MethodChapter 6 Parson's Second Project: The Social System - Sources, Development and LimitationsChapter 7 Social Systems and Complexity TheoryChapter 8 Can Functionalism Be Saved?Chapter 9 Networks and SystemsChapter 10 Language and the "Family" or Generalized Symbolic MediaChapter 11 Parsons's Analysis of the Societal CommunityChapter 12 Empirical Sociological Theory and the Resolution of Normative DilemmasChapter 13 Index

The contributors to Talcott Parsons Today include most of the finest Parsons scholars and some of the best sociological theorists in the world. Written well into the second decade of 'the Parsons revival,' the essays—some historical, some systematic, some critical—reflect a new level of maturity in contemporary thinking about Parsons and his continuing legacy.