The theory of social action. The correspondence of Alfred Schutz and Talcott Parsons. Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy

Name: The theory of social action. The correspondence of Alfred Schutz and Talcott Parsons. Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
Author: Schütz and Parsons

1978

by Schütz and Parsons

PhenomenologyEpistemologyMax WeberMethodologyRationalityAlfred MarshallVilfredo ParetoEdmund HusserlIdeal TypeSubjective ValueImmanuel Kant

Table of Contents · 21 segments

Front Matter and Table of Contentsfront_matter

Foreword by Maurice Natansonessay

Introduction by Richard Grathoffessay

Part I: Inquiry into the Structure of Social Action - Preliminary Letterstheoretical

Parsons' Theory of Social Action: A Critical Review by Alfred Schutz (Section A)essay

Parsons' Theory of Social Action: A Critical Review (Section B - Part 1)essay

The Voluntaristic Theory of Action and the Problem of Scientific Knowledgetheoretical

Normative Values and the Theory of Motivestheoretical

The Limits of the Unit Acttheoretical

The Subjective Point of View in the Social Sciencestheoretical

Types and Reality: The Construction of Social Understandingtheoretical

Parsons' First Response: Misunderstandings and Methodological Divergencetheoretical

Parsons' Second Response: Rationality and the Logic of Theoretical Systemstheoretical

Parsons' Third Response: Normative Values, Motives, and the Subjective Point of Viewtheoretical

Schutz's Rebuttal: Radicalizing the Theory of Actiontheoretical

Final Correspondence and Editor's Note on the Intellectual Divergencetheoretical

Part III: Talcott Parsons: A 1974 Retrospective Perspectiveessay

Richard Grathoff: How Long a Schutz-Parsons Divide?essay

Notes and Referencesbibliography

Subject and Name Indexbibliography

Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Series Listbibliography