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01 Sep 14
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Talcott Parsons (December 13, 1902 – May 8, 1979) was an American sociologist who served on the faculty of Harvard University from 1927 to 1973.
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the utilitarian-positivist and hermeneutic-idealistic traditions.
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a theory of social evolution and a concrete interpretation of the "drives" and directions of world history.
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establish a balance between two major methodological traditions
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utilitarian-positivist and hermeneutic-idealistic traditions
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structural functionalism" was a particular stage in the methodological development of the social science, and "functionalism" was a universal method
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neither term was a name for any specific school.
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maintain the scientific rigour of positivism
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acknowledging the necessity of the "subjective dimension" of human action incorporated in hermeneutic types
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Dante-Gabryell MonsonHe produced a general theoretical system for the analysis of society, that came to be called structural functionalism. This was created by Parsons to reflect his vision of an integrated social science.
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Howard SilvermanHe produced a general theoretical system for the analysis of
society, that came to be called structural functionalism. (Goal
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Parsons developed his ideas during a period when systems theory and cybernetics were very much on the front burner of social and behavioral science. In using systems thinking, he postulated that the relevant systems treated in social and behavioral science were "open," meaning that they were embedded in an environment consisting of other systems. For social and behavioral science, the largest system is "the action system," consisting of interrelated behaviors of human beings, embedded in a physical-organic environment.
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To survive or maintain equilibrium with respect to its environment, any system must to some degree adapt to that environment, attain its goals, integrate its components, and maintain its latent pattern, a cultural template of some sort. These are called the system's functional imperatives.
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