Theory of Action (Routledge Revivals): Towards a New Synthesis Going Beyond Parsons - Hardcover

Münch, Richard

 
9780415615594: Theory of Action (Routledge Revivals): Towards a New Synthesis Going Beyond Parsons
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ISBN 10: 0415615593 ISBN 13: 9780415615594
Publisher: Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

Modern sociology owes its existence and the progress it has made to the integration of differing kinds of orientations. In this work, first published 1987, Professor Richard Münch sets out to reformulate the theory of action, a notion central to sociology and one to which all schools of thought within sociology have contributed. He gives an exposition of the voluntaristic theory of action as found in Talcott Parson's work, reconstructing and extending Parson's theory from the perspective of the present-day level of development. In this way he both integrates opposing orientations to action theory and presents the voluntaristic theory of action in a readable and teachable from.

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Richard Münch

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2011
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415615593
ISBN 13 
9780415615594
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
282

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