Talcott Parsons on Institutions and Social Evolution

Preface
A Biographical Note
Introduction, by Leon H. Mayhew
I. Sociological Theory and the Action Frame of Reference
1. The Role of Theory in Social Research
2. The Place of Ultimate Values in Sociological Theory
3. The Action Frame of Reference
4. Hobbes and the Problem of Order
5. Rationality and Utilitarianism
6. The Pattern Variables
II. Institutionalization
7. Integration and Institutionalization in the Social System
8. The Superego and the Theory of Social Systems
9. Illness and the Role of the Physician, with Rene Fox
10. The Hierarchy of Control
11. Specification
12. Jurisdiction
III. Institutionalized Exchange
13. Durkheim on Organic Solidarity
14. Double Interchanges in Economy and Society, with Neil Smelser
15. On the Concept of Influence
IV. Change, Evolution, and Modern Society
16. Some Considerations on the Theory of Social Change
17. The Mass Media and the Structure of American Society, with Winston White
18. Archaic and Historic Societies
19. Evolutionary Universals in Society
20. American Values and American Society, with Gerald M. Platt
Notes
Index