On Talcott Parsons' the social system

International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 673-684

  Gerth, Hans H ^a  

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EID: 0005519819     PISSN: 08914486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02098738     Document Type: Review

References (21)

1. See Hans Gerth and C. Wright Mills, Character and Social Structure: The Psychology of Social Institutions. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1953. Gerth refers here to Chapter VII, "Institutions and Persons."
2. Talcott Parsons, The Social System (New York: The Free Press, 1951), pp. 512-13.
3. Parsons, The Social System, pp. 125-26.
4. Parsons, The Social System, p. 126.
5. Parsons, The Social System, p. 408.
6. Parsons, The Social System, p. 410.
7. Gerth cites S. Giedon, Space, Time, Architecture (1942) as "quite interesting" in this context.
8. Parsons, The Social System, p. 410.
9. Parsons, The Social System, p. 411.
10. Parsons, The Social System, p. 411.
11. Gerth mentions Arnold Hauser's then recently published The Social History of Art (New York: Knopf, 1951) as being "good and informative" on the issues here under discussion.
12. Parsons, The Social System, p. 180.
13. Parsons, The Social System, p. 180.
14. Parsons, The Social System, pp. 524-25.
15. Parsons, The Social System, p. 525.
16. These remarks were obviously written at a time when Germany was still a wholly defeated country.
17. Parsons, The Social System, p. 193.
18. Parsons, The Social System, p. 192; Parsons' emphasis.
19. Parsons, The Social System, p. 193.
20. Although Gerth does not mention him by name, he clearly has in mind here the work of sociologist Willard Waller. Waller's essay "The Rating and Dating Complex" is reprinted in Willard Wailer, On the Family, Education, and War: Selected Writings, edited and with an inroduction by William J. Goode, Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., and Larry R. Mitchell (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970).
21. Parsons, The Social System, p. 193.