Sociologist (13-Dec-1902 — 8-May-1979)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Jeffrey C. Alexander. The Modern Reconstruction of Classical Thought: Talcott Parsons. Routledge. 1982. 530pp.

Max Black. The Social Theories of Talcott Parsons: A Critical Examination. Prentice-Hall. 1961. 363pp.

François Bourricaud. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. The Sociology of Talcott Parsons. University of Chicago Press. 1981. 326pp. Translation of L'individualisme institutionnel.

Larry Brownstein. Talcott Parsons' General Action Scheme: An Investigation of Fundamental Principles. Schenkman Publishing Co.. 1982. 309pp.

William Buxton. Talcott Parsons and the Capitalist Nation-State: Political Sociology as a Strategic Vocation. University of Toronto Press. 1985. 331pp.

Uta Gerhardt. Talcott Parsons: An Intellectual Biography. Cambridge University Press. 2002. 311pp.

Richard Grathoff (editor). The Theory of Social Action: The Correspondence of Alfred Schutz and Talcott Parsons. Indiana University Press. 1978. 145pp.

Peter Hamilton (editor). Talcott Parsons: Critical Assessments. Taylor & Francis. 1992. 344pp.

John Holmwood (editor). Talcott Parsons. Ashgate. 2006. 534pp. Essays.

John Holmwood. Founding Sociology? Talcott Parsons and the Idea of General Theory. Longman. 1996. 141pp.

Kwang-ki Kim. Order and Agency in Modernity: Talcott Parsons, Erving Goffman, and Harold Garfinkel. SUNY Press. 2003. 180pp.

Donald Nathan Levine. Simmel and Parsons: Two Approaches to the Study of Society. Ayer Co.. 1980. 239pp.

Ken Menzies. Talcott Parsons and the Social Image of Man. Routledge. 1977. 197pp.

William C. Mitchell. Sociological Analysis and Politics: The Theories of Talcott Parsons. Prentice-Hall. 1967. 222pp.

Roland Robertson; Bryan S. Turner. Talcott Parsons: Theorist of Modernity. Sage. 1991. 264pp.

Stephen P. Savage. The Theories of Talcott Parsons: Social Relations of Action. Macmillan. 1983. 279pp.

A. Javier Treviño (editor). Talcott Parsons Today: His Theory and Legacy in Contemporary Sociology. Rowman & Littlefield. 2001. 259pp.

Herman Turk; Richard L. Simpson (editor). Institutions and Social Exchange: The Sociologies of Talcott Parsons & George C. Homans. Bobbs-Merrill. 1971. 417pp.

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3. Public Information Research Namebase [link]

4. Wikipedia [link]

5. Encyclopedia of American Biography (p.859)

6. 20th Century Culture: A Biographical Companion (p.580)

7. International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography (p.546)

8. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.1128)

9. Webster's American Biographies (p.799)

10. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.559)

11. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.387)

12. The Hutchinson Dictionary of Ideas (p.397)

13. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.114)

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