Original scientific paper
Values and Social Integration in the Theory of Talcott Parsons
Nenad Fanuko
; Arhitektonski fakultet, Zagreb
Abstract
The internal theoretical difficulties of Parsons' concept of values and their role in the integration of social system are analysed. Special emphasis is given to the impossibility of deriving the concept of society out of the concept of action. In the later phase of his theory Parsons is thus forced to emphasize the theory of system in order to derive the concept of society. After a short review of critics of Parsons' theory the author points at the distinction between system and social integration (Lockwood, Habermas) which can be used as a fruitful analytical tool by which the questions of the relationship between theory of action and system theory could be resolved.
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155776
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Publication date:
31.12.1985.
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