The Structure of Social Action: A Study in Social Theory with Special Reference to a Group of Recent European Writers

✍ Scribed by Talcott Parsons

• Publisher: The Free Press
• Year: 1968
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 539
• Edition: First Free Press Paperback Edition
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright
Introduction to the Paperback Edition
Preface to Second Edition
Preface
Contents
Epigraph
Part I. The positivistic theory of action
Chapter I. Introductory
Chapter II. The theory of action
Chapter III. Some phases of the historical development of individualistic positivism in the theory of action
Part II. The emergence of a voluntaristic theory of action from the positivist tradition
Chapter IV. Alfred Marshall: Wants and activities and the problem of the scope of economics
Chapter V. Vilfredo Pareto, I: The methodology and main analytic scheme
Chapter VI. Vilfredo Pareto, II: Extension and verification of the structural analysis
Chapter VII. Vilfredo Pareto, III: Empirical generalizations and conclusions
Chapter VIII. Emile Durkheim, I: Early empirical work
Chapter IX. Emile Durkheim, II: The methodology of sociologistic positivism
Chapter X. Emile Durkheim, III: The development of the theory of social control
Chapter XI. Emile Durkheim, IV: The final phase: Religion and epistemology
Chapter XII. Summary of Part II: The breakdown of the positivistic theory of action
Back Matter
Bibliography
Index
Back cover