Talcott Parsons Boeken

Offering a diverse set of contributions to current social contracting research, this volume illustrates how social contracts necessarily underlie and facilitate all forms of capitalist production and exchange. The editors bring together novel contributions from fields as diverse as economics, evolutionary game theory, contract law, business ethics, moral philosophy and anthropology to offer multifaceted but subtly intertwined perspectives on fundamental questions concerning human cooperation.

Illustrating the eminence and broad range of Talcott Parsons work, each of the papers in this new collection represent a major step in his development of a coherent theoretical orientation in sociology. This new collection demonstrates the impact of economics political science anthropology psychology and history on the authors development of a coherent theoretical orientation in sociology. Indicative of the rapid change and development taking place in the social science disciplines, Sociology Theory and Modern Society is an important step towards the crystallization of theoretical thought into solidly based and relatively formalized theoretical structures.

During the years between the publication of the first of his two major works, Talcott Parsons was primarily engaged in political activity through the Office of Strategic Services in its efforts to bring about the defeat of the Third Reich and to set the stage for a democratic reconstruction of postwar Germany