You might look at Herb Gintis' papers. I can't offer a citation but Gintis has referred to Parson.
Gene On Aug 17, 2013, at 8:41 AM, Jurriaan Bendien wrote: > Thanks Jim, but my query concerns the specifics of Parsons’ concept of role. > In my story I am arguing, roughly, that his concept of role is crucially > ambiguous, and therefore that he does not succeed in theorizing social roles > as the nexus of social structure and social action. Parsons’ concept was > supposed to provide a sociological complement to neoclassical economics. > > But I just want to check that I am correct, by referring to an authoritative > critic of Parson’s role theory. I am not arguing that Parsons is stupid, to > the contrary, he is highly sophisticated (and indeed there are > bourgeois-feminist Parsonians), but his concept of role falls short of what’s > required. > > Parsons has been criticized for his functionalism, tautology, oversocialized > man, etc., but there are very few sociological writings which critically > examine his role concept in any detail. > > J. > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
