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Social Theory in the Middle East
Social Theory: Doreen Massey2022 •
https://www.sepad.org.uk/report/social-theory-report
2015 •
Comparing and contrasting three theories of social system development: General Systems Theory, Cybernetics, and Complexity. Talcott Parson's Theory of Action and Nicholas Luhmann's Social Systems Theory are compared. These theories provide a basis for analyzing social system development and behavior.
Századvég Publishing
Talcott Parsons' theory of action and systemsParsons' intellectual activity has been variously evaluated. His critics have found fault with the vagueness of his formulations, which makes the intellectual content of his works comprehensible only after repeated readings; they have been no less averse to the abstractness of his thought; and finally, most evaluations have been marked by a distaste for the conservatism of socio-political equilibrium implied by his works. It is with regard to the latter that most of his critics can be found among politically left-leaning Western social scientists. Yet here, too, there have been polar opposite views in evaluating Parsons' achievements. There is probably no more negative assessment than that of Wright Mills in his 1959 book on Parsons' "grand theory," of which he wrote: "(....) 50 percent word multiplication, 40 percent sociological platitude. The other ten percent can be studied empirically. (Mills, 1970:291). As far as possible from this pithy opinion is the no less respected and no less left-wing Jürgen Habermas of 1981: in his view, a social theory at the end of the 20th century cannot be taken seriously if its creator has not seriously engaged with Parsons' theory. (Habermas, 1981/II. 296.) This latter view is also more in line with Alvin W. Gouldner's statement in 1971: "If we want to understand the bourgeois theoretical thought of our time, we must focus primarily on the works of Talcott Parsons, because it is this work that has had the most far-reaching impact in recent decades. (Gouldner, 1971:168.) In the domestic sociological literature in Hungary, there has long been an aversion to the work of Parsons, and only in recent years has there been a more intensive study of his theoretical work. A deeper understanding of Parsons' work is probably complicated by the conceptual difficulty of his work, but perhaps even more so by the dense modifications of Parsons' use of concepts in his successive works. Indeed, Parsons rebuilt his conceptual apparatus several times (sometimes every two or three years) over the course of his fifty years of theoretical work. His first synthesis, The Structure of Social Action, was published in 1937 after ten years of preliminary partial studies. For a long time thereafter he published only studies, and in 1951 he further expanded his original conceptual apparatus in two volumes. The subject of Toward a General Theory of Action, co-authored with his former student Edward Shils, is still related to the first volume, while his second volume, The Social System, written independently, marks the beginning of Parsons' turn toward systems theory. He then turns briefly to the family and socialization, and in this context he refreshes his conceptual stock with the category of another former student, Robert Bales (this is the subject of their 1953 volume Working Papers in the Theory of Action, co-authored with Shils and Bales). He approaches macroeconomic problems with the conceptual apparatus he had developed in previous years, but the problems here and his study of recent economic theories, especially Keynes's monetary theory, cause him to change his conceptual tools. Their 1956 volume, Economy and Society, co-authored with Neil Smelser, is the result of this work. After several revisions, Parsons' conceptual apparatus is by this time largely fixed, or at least there are only changes in terms of one category compared to the radical changes made earlier. This conceptual "cooling off" is evident in Theories of Society, published in 1961 by a group of Parsons and his students, in which Parsons summarizes the basic categories of his social
Social Theory Now
Introduction: Social Theory Now (w/ Monika Krause & Isaac Reed)2017 •
Introduction for Social Theory Now, University of Chicago Press. 2017. Link to whole book: https://www.amazon.com/Social-Theory-Now-Claudio-Benzecry/dp/022647528X/ref=sr_1_1?
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