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Talcott Parsons was the first social scientist to theorize the doctor-patient relationship, and his functionalist, role-based approach defined analysis of the doctor-patient relationship for the next two decades. Parsons (1951, 1958, 1978) began with the assumption that illness was a form of dysfunctional deviance that required reintegration with the social organism. Illness, or feigned illness, exempted people from work and other responsibilities, and ... was potentially detrimental to the social order if uncontrolled. Maintaining the social order required the development of a legitimized "sick role" to control this deviance, and make illness a transitional state back to normal role performance. In Western society, Parsons saw four norms governing the functional sick role: 1. the individual is not responsible for their illness; 2.
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Talcott Parsons is Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. His books include The Structure of Social Action (1949), The Social System (1951), and The System of Modern Societies (1971). He is currently at work on The American Societal Community.
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Talcott Parsons’ writings are indisputably classics of American sociology. Today, more than a quarter century after Parsons’ death and a full thirty years since he dominated sociological discourse, Parsons’ theories still serve as flashpoints in many debates. Parsons worked his entire life to reconcile the insights of modern economics with modern sociology and to explore how an authentic economic sociology could be developed. The ambivalent reactions by contemporary sociologists surrounding Parsons’ work has motivated this book in an effort to help unify the social sciences by exploring their special competencies and taking stock of their unique insights. Beginning with a transcript of Parsons’ March 10th, 1973, seminar, the book follows with five essays that explore Parsons and the precise connection between his work and some of the ideas in the "new" economic sociology.
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Talcott Parsons returned from study abroad during the Roaring Twenties. For many, it appeared to be a time of growing prosperity, an era of limitless opportunity. However, in important ways this was a decade of the bizarre and the banal. The postwar problems of unemployment and inflation were superimposed on a social order suffering from runaway urbanization, the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, and the rise of Al Capone. Herbert Hoover had declared in 1922 that American business enterprise was no longer plagued by the win at any price philosophy. Bruce Barton's popular book The Man Nobody Knows: A Discovery of the Real Jesus was published in 1925 and praised the Nazarene as the founder of modern free enterprise.
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Talcott Parsons was born on Dec. 13, 1902, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He graduated from Amherst College in 1924, where he majored in biology, but decided to do graduate work in economics. In 1924-25 he attended the London School of Economics. He took his doctorate at Heidelberg University in Germany in 1927. While at Heidelberg, he translated Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, which exercised a great influence upon young American sociologists.
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Talcott Parsons was born on December 13th, in Colorado Springs. He grew up to attend Amherst College with a major in Biology and Philosophy and then continued to the London School of Economics where he was greatly influenced by the works of Bronislaw Malinowski and Leonard Hobhouse, among others. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology and Economics at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. In 1927 he became a Professor at Harvard.
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