Talcott Parsons Carlo Petrini for many busy clinicians

for many busy clinicians

Contributions by Lisa Doris Alexander

almost all previously uncollected

her fictions harbor a subversive potential which has hitherto gone unnoticed

of a "wild grin of insect glee" just beyond the confines of sleep

Talcott Parsons Carlo Petrini for many busy cliniciansThis volume offers a reappraisal of sociologist Talcott Parsons' work by social theorists who place his writing at the centre of current controversies over modernity, postmodernity and globalization. The contributors examine the problems in the interpretation of Parsons' work. The discussion encompasses his place in American social theory, his conception of world history and the contemporary neo functionalist movement.