Contradictions in the societal community: The promise and disappointment of parsons's concept

After Parsons: A Theory of Social Action for the Twenty-First Century

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 93-110

  Alexander, Jeffrey C ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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