Knowledge and Society: American Sociology

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Talcott Parsons
Voice of America, 1968 - 359 หน้า
 

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หน้า 113 - If we had mentioned the actual results of the investigation first, the reader would have labelled these "obvious" also. Obviously something is wrong with the entire argument of "obviousness." It should really be turned on its head. Since every kind of human reaction is conceivable, it is of great importance to know which reactions actually occur most frequently and under what conditions; only then will a more advanced social science develop.
หน้า 287 - But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.
หน้า 59 - In 1958-1959 he was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, California.
หน้า 113 - Southern whites have a more fatherly attitude toward their "darkies"?) 6. As long as the fighting continued, men were more eager to be returned to the States than they were after the German surrender. (You cannot blame people for not wanting to be killed.) We have in these examples a sample list of the simplest type of interrelationships which provide the "bricks" from which our empirical social science is being built.
หน้า 9 - ... while at the same time people have lost those ties which gave them security, this lag makes freedom an unbearable burden. It then becomes identical with doubt, with a kind of life which lacks meaning and direction. Powerful tendencies arise to escape from this kind of freedom...
หน้า 236 - Just as the primitive symbol system is myth par excellence, so primitive religious action is ritual par excellence. In the ritual the participants become identified with the mythical beings they represent. The mythical beings are not addressed or propitiated or beseeched. The distance between man and mythical being, which was at best slight, disappears altogether in the moment of ritual when everywhen becomes now. There are no priests and no congregation, no mediating representative roles and no...
หน้า 70 - See Robert K. Merton, Social Theory and Social Structure, Glencoe, 111.: The Free Press, 1957; Robert K. Merton, "Social Problems and Sociological Theory,
หน้า 228 - Director of the Institute for the Study of Science in Human Affairs at Columbia University and a member of the faculty from 1966 to 1972.
หน้า 18 - ... but also of the main facts about the personalities operating in that structure. What is required, therefore, is an integration or coordination of two basic sets of data in a larger explanatory scheme — not a reduction of either mode of analysis to the allegedly more fundamental level of the other.
หน้า 172 - Science can be defined as the study of the interrelationship between society and polity, between social structures and political institu-tions. It is important to note that this definition does not assign causal priority to society over polity; political sociology is not solely the study of the social factors that condition the political order. Indeed, political institutions are themselves social structures, and hence are often the independent...

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