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Este artículo ofrece una perspectiva panorámica, aunque necesariamente incompleta, sobre la teorización sociológica acerca de la “comunidad”, un concepto sociológico fundamental (en sí mismo, o en el contexto del par dicotómico que... more
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      Sociological TheoryCommunityZygmunt BaumanMichel Maffesoli
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      EvolutionInstitutionsTalcott ParsonsIndividualisme
Un apunte de clases. Cuatro páginas, tres resúmenes. Dos de una carilla, uno de dos carillas. Conceptos fundamentales, y la lógica interna de su teoría de la acción y los sistemas sociales. Los tres resumen el modelo trisistémico, y el... more
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      Social TheorySocial Systems TheoryAction TheoryTalcott Parsons
https://brill.com/display/title/32081 To date, the nascent consequential notion of 'multiple modernities' has been predominately grounded in historical research with the purpose of validating the theory. Yet, the notion of multiple... more
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      Critical TheorySociologyPhilosophyPolitical Philosophy
Giuseppe Sciortino The Structure of Social Action's «Missing» Chapter on Simmel: An Introduction AND Talcott Parsons Georg Simmel and Ferdinand Tonnies: Social Relationships and the Element of Action BOTH IN Gabriele Pollini and Giuseppe... more
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      FunctionalismAction TheoryGeorg SimmelStructural Functionalism
Questo manuale – rivolto agli studenti che incontrano per la prima volta la sociologia nel loro corso di studio – non è nato “a tavolino”, ma riflette una serie di considerazioni pratiche strettamente connesse alla didattica e... more
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      SociologyEpistemologyMarxismMarxist theory
Existing sociological studies of critical illness deal mainly with providers and families, but seldom with patients, themselves. Moreover, most of the literature on the patient's experience involves chronic illness. Based on the author's... more
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      Medical SociologyNew MediaHealth CommunicationMedical Education
Nudging is a form of soft paternalism whereby governments manipulate the choice architectures of citizens to steer them toward desired outcomes (including eating better, voting more often, being less aggressive and violent, being more... more
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      Behavioral EconomicsJohn Stuart MillTalcott ParsonsCass Sunstein
Please cite as follows:

Chriss, James J. 2019. Social Control: History of the Concept. Pp. 9-22 in Handbook of Social Control, edited by M. Deflem. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
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      Social NormsEmile DurkheimMax WeberMicroaggressions
This paper argues that critical theory can benefit from a return to the structural-functionalist paradigm abandoned by contemporary thinkers such as Jurgen Habermas and Axel Honneth. It argues that the work of Talcott Parsons can be... more
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      Critical TheorySocial TheoryCritical Social TheoryFrankfurt School
Two standard interpretations of traditional action are rejected. Traditional action is not subjectively meaningful in the sense of having what Talcott Parsons calls a 'normative orientation'. But nor is traditional action a matter of... more
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      TraditionalismMax WeberTalcott ParsonsSocial action
Infografía de la teoría estructural-funcionalista.
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      SociologySociología De La EducaciónTalcott ParsonsSociología
In sociology and criminology, a consensus has emerged since the 1980s that there exist three basic forms of social control: informal, legal, and medical. However, Talcott Parsons developed a typology of social control that added a fourth... more
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      ReligionSociology of ReligionTheologyPhenomenology
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      Social TheoryMichel FoucaultRobin George CollingwoodUmberto Eco
Forthcoming in: Peltonen, T., Gaggiotti, H. & Case, P. (eds) Origins of Organizing. Edward Elgar
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      Organizational TheorySociology of OrganizationsHistory of international organizationsTalcott Parsons
This book discribes the main current sociological paradigms. Attention is paid to the main focus of the theories and their methodological consequences. In ten chapters the following theories are discussed: M. Weber, E. Durkheim,... more
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      Jurgen HabermasFunctionalismEthnomethodologySociological Theory
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      SociologySocial SciencesTalcott Parsons
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      SociologyFunctionalismGeorg SimmelEmile Durkheim
Teori struktural fungsional muncul dilatarbelakangi oleh perkembangan masyarakat yang dipengaruhi semangat renaissance. Pada saat itu muncul kesadaran baru tentang peran manusia yang semula dianggap tidak memiliki otoritas apapun untuk... more
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      Talcott ParsonsSebastiana da Costa PereiraUNPAZ Program Magister Ilmu Hukum UNPAZ
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      HistorySociologyCultural StudiesHistorical Sociology
Jürgen Habermas has spent a long career developing a critical theory of reasoned communication, following Weber's idea concerning the negative aspects of rationalization in western society which places emphasis on technocratic or... more
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      Critical TheoryJurgen HabermasPostmodernismTalcott Parsons
Der Band analysiert die dominierenden Gesellschaftstheorien der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. So werden u.a. die Theorien von Talcott Parsons, Niklas Luhmann, Jürgen Habermas, Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Foucault und Raymond Boudon... more
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      Michel FoucaultPierre BourdieuNiklas LuhmannTalcott Parsons
Der folgende Beitrag stellt drei soziologische Kritikpunkte am Konzept rationalen Entscheidens dar. Genauer gesagt werden drei kritische Perspektiven auf zweckrationales Handeln vorgestellt, da in weiten Teilen der Soziologie der... more
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      Sociological TheoryBounded RationalityNiklas LuhmannMax Weber
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      History of Social SciencesHistory of SociologyTalcott Parsons
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      EthnomethodologyErving GoffmanMax WeberAnthony Giddens
Die Soziologie der Mitgliedschaft legt einen besonderen Anschnitt bei der Untersuchung der klassischen soziologischen Grundbegriffe Rolle, Status, Erwartungen und soziale Gruppe. Er besteht darin, dass sie im Hinblick auf die... more
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      Organizational BehaviorSociologyPolitical SociologySocial Theory
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      History of SociologySocial Systems TheoryTalcott ParsonsAmerican Sociology
Mills estudia los problemas teóricos, prácticos y morales de las ciencias sociales y de las escuelas de sociología estadounidenses, y al mismo tiempo resulta una nueva formulación y una defensa del análisis sociológico clásico que da... more
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      Critical TheorySociologiaTalcott ParsonsSociología
El concepto de clase social posee relevancia transversal para la teoría sociológica. A pesar de esto, persiste una falta de conocimiento sobre su uso por parte de enfoques distintos a la tradición marxista o weberiana. En este sentido,... more
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      Niklas LuhmannTalcott ParsonsTeoría de Sistemas SocialesClases sociales y estratificación
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      Health PromotionChronic illnessSociology of Health and IllnessTalcott Parsons
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      SociologyFamily (Sociology)Talcott ParsonsSosyoloji
Il presente scritto si colloca nell’ottica di fornire un modello generale di analisi delle organizzazioni come sistemi sociali, utile a comprenderne il funzionamento, gli aspetti problematici (che sostengono gli interventi di sviluppo) e... more
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      Organizational TheoryTalcott ParsonsOrganizational DiagnosisAnalisi e diagnosi organizzativa
I comment on Lonergan's Dialectic of Authority and bring it into conversation with functionalist and Weberian thought on power.
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      International RelationsPower ElectronicsFunctionalismBernard Lonergan
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      ReligionFunctionalismSecularizationTalcott Parsons
Despite the fact that, during the 60s and 70s, social tensions exposed weaknesses in its foundational precepts, themes from the Structural-Functionalist school of thought continue to underpin contemporary approaches to organizational and... more
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      FunctionalismStructuralism/Post-StructuralismStructuralism (Philosophy)Emile Durkheim
Traducción propia de un célebre artículo del sociólogo inglés David Lockwood, del año 1964. Como no pude encontrar ninguna versión en castellano del mismo, realicé esta traducción 'provisional' en el año 2006, con fines pedagógicos. La... more
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      Social ChangeSystem IntegrationSociological TheorySystems Integration
Parsons: La acción como sistema. Del acto unidad hacia el sistema de acción. Puede decirse que el factor primario en la teoría de Parsons es el " acto unidad " el cual se traduce en simples palabras a la acción realizada por un agente en... more
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      Talcott ParsonsParsons
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      Sociology of Health and IllnessTalcott ParsonsSick Role
Versión original, del año 2005, del texto sobre el cual he basado durante años mis exposiciones sobre Parsons en la UBA, la UNL, Flacso, la Unsam, etc. De la misma han circulado múltiples versiones apócrifas, bajo la forma de... more
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      Social Systems TheorySociological TheoryTalcott ParsonsTeoría Sociológica
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      Critical TheoryReligionSociologyCultural Studies
This book addresses two main questions: 1. What can the concept of political culture be taken to mean if it is to be a tenable social science concept? 2. Can it be used in causal or non-causal explanations of political phenomena? The... more
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      Sociology of CultureCultural SociologyPolitical TheoryPolitical Culture
Translated by Stephen and Barbara Mennell, 1975
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      Social Systems TheoryStructural FunctionalismTalcott Parsons
This article addresses the theory of action and systems theory in the works of Talcott Parsons and Jürgen Habermas. It is divided in two main parts: the first presents the key stages of Parsons’ theoretical evolution and the second deals... more
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      Social TheoryCommunicationJurgen HabermasSystems Theory
This is a very early paper, a version of which showed up in my 1990 Virginia Tech master's thesis. Parts of this also informed my 1993 paper on Durkheim and Goffman. It is very early giddiness about Durkheim the Great. I have since... more
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      SuicideEmile DurkheimTalcott ParsonsClassical sociology
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      ReligionGeorg SimmelEmile DurkheimJean Jaques Rousseau
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      AutopoiesisSocial Systems TheoryContingency (Social Systems Theory)Niklas Luhmann
Membaca dan memahami Talcott Parsons akan teori-teorinya sehubungan dengan struktur fungsionalisme adalah langkah dasar yang penting ba para pakar dan praktisi hukum, terutama bagi para mahasiswa jenjang awal program-magister. Alangkah... more
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      Talcott ParsonsParsons, sociological theory, theory of actionTheory Of StructuresSebastiana Pereira
During the first half of the 20th century Talcott Parsons developed his social theory of functionalism. His synthesis of the insights of Durkheim, Webber, and others provided the corner stone for his "grand theory." Parsons' functionalism... more
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      Social TheoryPractice theoryOperations ResearchFunctionalism
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      Economic HistoryIslamic EconomicsJurgen HabermasIbn Khaldun