The Talcott Parsons ReaderISBN: 978-1-55786-543-4
Hardcover
368 pages
January 1991, Wiley-Blackwell
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"With this astute and illuminating collection, Turner demonstrates
for contemporary readers why Talcott Parsons is regarded as the
dominant sociological theorist of the mid-twentieth century, and
one of the master narrators of modernity. Ranging from economics
and global power to considerations of youth, sickness, and death,
these empirically-oriented selections reveal the vast scope of
Parson’s thought." – Jeffrey Alexander, University
of California at Los Angeles
"Parsons once described himself as an ‘incurable theorist’. This excellent collection of essays reveals a practical sociologist possessing great insight into the modern condition. Professor Turner has done a real service in reminding us of the substantive issues to which Parsons’s theoretical efforts were ultimately directed, issues which are as central to the discipline now as when Parsons was writing." – John Holmwood, University of Edinburgh