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Volume 52, Issue 1

March 2021

Talcott Parsons: Politics, Economics and Morality

Issue Editors:

Victor Lidz,
Helmut Staubmann

12 articles in this issue

Editor’s Introduction: Parsons in Contemporary Perspective: an Ongoing Moral Career
Lawrence T. Nichols
EditorialNotes 21 April 2021 Pages: 1 - 11
Parsons and Politics—Introductory Remarks
Victor Lidz
Helmut Staubmann
OriginalPaper Open access 02 April 2021 Pages: 12 - 18
Parsons as Economist: His Early Writings on Modern Capitalism
Christopher Adair-Toteff
OriginalPaper 12 February 2021 Pages: 19 - 37
Working through Contradictions: Parsons and the Harvard Intellectual Community during the Late 60s and Early 70s
Mark Gould
OriginalPaper 19 October 2020 Pages: 38 - 62
Politics and the Academic Social Scientist; The Record of Talcott Parsons
Victor Lidz
OriginalPaper Open access 15 March 2021 Pages: 63 - 87
Addressing Parsons in Sociological Textbooks: Past Conflicts, Contemporary Readers, and their Future Gains
Bettina Mahlert
OriginalPaper Open access 08 December 2020 Pages: 88 - 106
Talcott Parsons and the Sociology of Morality
Raquel Weiss
Jayme Gomes Neto
OriginalPaper 14 October 2020 Pages: 107 - 130
Garfinkel’s Politics: Collaborating with Parsons to Document Taken-for-Granted Practices for Assembling Cultural Objects and their Grounding in Implicit Social Contract
Anne W. Rawls
Jason Turowetz
OriginalPaper Open access 15 May 2021 Pages: 131 - 158
A Blueprint for Inclusion: Talcott Parsons, the Societal Community and the Future of Universalistic Solidarities
Giuseppe Sciortino
OriginalPaper Open access 02 November 2020 Pages: 159 - 177
C. Wright Mills’ The Sociological Imagination and the Construction of Talcott Parsons as a Conservative Grand Theorist
Helmut Staubmann
OriginalPaper Open access 10 October 2020 Pages: 178 - 193
What’s So American about Talcott Parsons’s Sociology?
Bruce C. Wearne
OriginalPaper 29 August 2020 Pages: 194 - 213
Afterword: A Functional Analysis of the Crisis in American Society, 2020
Victor Lidz
ReviewPaper Open access 02 April 2021 Pages: 214 - 242