Author:
Turk, Herman.
Imprint:Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill, [c1971]
Descriptionviii, 417 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Note:Published under the auspices of the united chapters of Alpha Kappa Delta, the national sociological scholarship society.
Note:Articles originally appeared in various publications.
Note:Perspectives on Homans, Parsons, and current theory / Herman Turk and Richard L. Simpson -- Levels of organization and the mediation of social interaction/ Talcott Parsons -- Societal goals, systematic needs, social interaction, and individual behavior: some tentative explorations / S. N. Eisenstadt -- Justice in social exchange / Peter M. Blau -- Balance theory and distributive justice / C. Norman Alexander, Jr., and Richard L. Simpson -- Homans in the Skinner box / Morton Deutsch -- Homans' transactional theory in footnotes / Jerry S. Cloyd and Alan P. Bates -- Bringing men back in / George C. Homans -- Task and emotion, value and charisma: theoretical union at several levels / Herman Turk -- Family as a small group association / Josephine Klein -- On sentiments and social control / Tamotsu Shibutani -- Talcott Parsons' theoretical metamorphosis from social behaviorism to macrofunctionalism / Don Martindale -- Academentia praecox: the aims, merits, and scope of Parsons' multisystemic language rebellion (1958-1968) / Martin U. Martel -- Negatitive values, countersystem models, and the analysis of social systems / Gideon Sjoberg and Leonard D. Cain -- Higher education as a theoretical focus / Talcott Parsons -- Imperative control, associationalism, and the moral order / Richard L. Simpson -- Collective decisions / James S. Coleman -- Stratification, power, and social change / Alvin Boskoff -- Concept of equilibrium: sociological tantalizer / Joseph Lopreato -- Theoretical and empirical analysis of social change and conflict based on Talcott Parsons' ideas / A. L. Jacobson -- Commentary / George C. Homans ; Talcott Parsons.
