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Action theory and the human condition
Title
Action theory and the human condition / Talcott Parsons.
ISBN
0029239907
9780029239902
Published
New York : Free Press ; London : Collier Macmillan Publishers, c1978.
Physical Description
xi, 464 pages ; 25 cm
Local Notes
BEIN Gray Social Thought 2809: Number line on title page verso indicates 1st printing: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. Dust jacket. Presentation inscription from Talcott [Parsons] to [Willis?]. From the library of Bradford H. Gray. Accompanied by: bookmark for Borders Book Shop; business card for Scholarly Books Inc.
Notes
Includes errata slip.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 434-450) and index.
Contents
1. Sociology of health and illness and related topics: The sick role and the role of the physician reconsidered
Research with human subjects and the "professional complex"
Health and disease: a sociological and action perspective
The interpretation of dreams by Sigmund Freud
2. Sociology of higher education: The future of the university
Some considerations on the growth of the American system of higher education and research
The university "bundle": a study of the balance between differentiation and integration
Stability and change in the America university
3. Sociology of religion: Christianity
Durkheim on religion revisited: another look at The elementary forms of the religious life
Belief, unbelief, and disbelief
The "gift of life" and its reciprocation
Religion in postindustrial America: the problem of secularization
4. The human condition: Death in the Western world
A paradigm of the human condition.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Also listed under
Bradford H. Gray Collection in the History of Social Thought (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
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