Talcott Parsons quotes
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“Sociology should... be thought of as a science of action-of the ultimate common value element in its relations to the other elements of action.”
-- Talcott ParsonsSource : Talcott Parsons (1967). “Structure of Social Action”, Free Pr
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“Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other-only in certain types of society can science flourish, and conversely without a continuous and healthy development and application of science such a society cannot function properly.”
-- Talcott ParsonsSource : 1951 The Social System, ch.8.
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“Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed.”
-- Talcott ParsonsSource : Talcott Parsons (1968). “The structure of social action: a study in social theory with special reference to a group of recent European writers”
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“Spencers god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.”
-- Talcott ParsonsSource : Talcott Parsons, Peter Hamilton (1985). “Readings from Talcott Parsons”, Chichester [West Sussex] : E. Horwood ; London ; New York : Tavistock Publications
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“But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.”
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“The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.”
-- Talcott ParsonsSource : Talcott Parsons (1968). “The structure of social action: a study in social theory with special reference to a group of recent European writers”
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“The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.”
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“A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.”
-- Talcott ParsonsSource : Talcott Parsons (1968). “The structure of social action: a study in social theory with special reference to a group of recent European writers”
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“But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.”
-- Talcott ParsonsSource : Talcott Parsons (1967). “Structure of Social Action”, Free Pr
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“If capitalism begins as the practical idealism of the aspiring bourgeoisie, it ends ... as an orgy of materialism.”
-- Talcott ParsonsSource : Max Weber, Talcott Parsons (2003). “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism”, p.3, Courier Corporation
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“A gloss is a total system of perception and language.”
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“Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.”
-- Talcott ParsonsSource : Talcott Parsons (1968). “The structure of social action: a study in social theory with special reference to a group of recent European writers”
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“If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.”
-- Talcott ParsonsSource : Talcott Parsons (1968). “The structure of social action: a study in social theory with special reference to a group of recent European writers”
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“A scientifically unimportant discovery is one which, however true and however interesting for other reasons, has no consequences for a system of theory with which scientists in that field are concerned.”
-- Talcott ParsonsSource : Talcott Parsons (1937). “The Structure of Social Action: A Study in Social Theory with Special Reference to a Group of Recent European Writers”
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“The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense.”
-- Talcott ParsonsSource : Talcott Parsons (1937). “The Structure of Social Action: A Study in Social Theory with Special Reference to a Group of Recent European Writers”
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“The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter of the reciprocal interaction of new factual insights and knowledge on the one hand with changes in the theoretical system on the other.”
-- Talcott ParsonsSource : Talcott Parsons, Peter Hamilton (1985). “Readings from Talcott Parsons”, Chichester [West Sussex] : E. Horwood ; London ; New York : Tavistock Publications
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“Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.”
-- Talcott ParsonsSource : Talcott Parsons (1968). “The structure of social action: a study in social theory with special reference to a group of recent European writers”
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“It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure of a theoretical system.”
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“It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.”
-- Talcott ParsonsSource : Talcott Parsons (1968). “The structure of social action: a study in social theory with special reference to a group of recent European writers”
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“The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.”
-- Talcott ParsonsSource : Talcott Parsons, Robert Freed Bales (1956). “Family Socialization and Interaction Process”, p.16, Psychology Press
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“If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there is another variable missing.”
-- Talcott ParsonsSource : TALCOTT PARSONS (1949). “THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIAL ACTION”
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