Sandro Segre received his Ph.D. in sociology from New York University in 1978. He is a professor of sociology and sociological theory at the University of Genoa, Italy. He is the author of Talcott Parsons. Un'introduzione (Roma: Carocci, 2009), A Weberian Analysis of Business Groups and Financial Markets: Trade Relations in Taiwan and Korea and Some Major Stock Exchanges (London: Ashgate, 2008), and numerous scholarly articles.

• IntroductionChapter One. The Conceptual ApparatusChapter Two. The First Period (1928-1937)Chapter Three. The Second Period (1938-1963)Chapter Four. The Third Period (1964-1979)Chapter Five. Research on Specific ThemesChapter Six. Parsons' Work ReceptionBibliography

The author has succeeded in producing an orderly presentation of a complex subject and in stimulating readers to pursue the study of Parsons in greater depth.

Sandro Segre received his Ph.D. in sociology from New York University in 1978. He is a professor of sociology and sociological theory at the University of Genoa, Italy. He is the author of Talcott Parsons. Un'introduzione (Roma: Carocci, 2009), A Weberian Analysis of Business Groups and Financial Markets: Trade Relations in Taiwan and Korea and Some Major Stock Exchanges (London: Ashgate, 2008), and numerous scholarly articles.

• IntroductionChapter One. The Conceptual ApparatusChapter Two. The First Period (1928-1937)Chapter Three. The Second Period (1938-1963)Chapter Four. The Third Period (1964-1979)Chapter Five. Research on Specific ThemesChapter Six. Parsons' Work ReceptionBibliography

The author has succeeded in producing an orderly presentation of a complex subject and in stimulating readers to pursue the study of Parsons in greater depth.

Sandro Segre received his Ph.D. in sociology from New York University in 1978. He is a professor of sociology and sociological theory at the University of Genoa, Italy. He is the author of Talcott Parsons. Un'introduzione (Roma: Carocci, 2009), A Weberian Analysis of Business Groups and Financial Markets: Trade Relations in Taiwan and Korea and Some Major Stock Exchanges (London: Ashgate, 2008), and numerous scholarly articles.

• IntroductionChapter One. The Conceptual ApparatusChapter Two. The First Period (1928-1937)Chapter Three. The Second Period (1938-1963)Chapter Four. The Third Period (1964-1979)Chapter Five. Research on Specific ThemesChapter Six. Parsons' Work ReceptionBibliography

The author has succeeded in producing an orderly presentation of a complex subject and in stimulating readers to pursue the study of Parsons in greater depth.