The Early Essays

by Talcott Parsons

Book Overview

With the publication in 1937 of his first book, The Structure of Social Action, Talcott Parsons (1902-79) established himself as one of America's most important social theorists. Yet Parsons's essays from the decade preceding 1937 are virtually unknown to theorists and historians of sociology. By gathering the majority of Parsons's articles and book reviews published between 1923 and 1937, Charles Camic supplies the first comprehensive selection...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226092372
• ISBN13: 9780226092379
• Release Date: August 1991
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 361 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"