SOCIOL 2S06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Structural Functionalism, Fiduciary, American Sociological Association
25 Feb 2014
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Monday october 28, 2013 (no class thursday october 31) A biography sketch of talcott parsons: early life. Born in 1902, in colorado springs, colorado. He came from a religious and intellectual background and that"s because his father was a minister and his father was also professor at colorado college: university life. Started his graduate school at london school of economics. He decided not to stay and decided to go to a german university as he was fluent. In 1925 he left london school and started his phd at heidelberg (where. Weber started his law school, left and then returned as a professor) However, there was a connection: came through weber"s widow, marianne, she was a leader of the german feminist movement where parson attended some meetings. Parsons was greatly influenced by weber"s work and read his work. He decided to deal with weber in part of his phd dissertation.
