SOCIOL 2S06 Lecture Notes - Talcott Parsons, Helen Walker, Amherst College
10 Nov 2013
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A biographical sketch of talcott parsons: early life. 1924 graduated from amherst college (massachusetts) 1925 started a ph. d at university of heidelberg (germany) Had a connection with weber"s widow & had intellectual discussions with her. Parsons did an analysis of how capitalism has been addressed by german. 1927 married helen walker, met helen when he had started graduate work at the london school of economics. 1927 - became a prof at harvard university. Started in the dept. of economics, transferred to sociology. 1930 - published an english translation of weber"s the protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism. 1939 published the structure of social action. Provided an analysis of the writings of durkheim & weber. Book important in bringing the work of durkheim & weber to american sociologists. 1944 became the chair of the dept. of sociology at harvard. Parsons set out many of his main theoretical ideas about structural functionalism.
