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This newest collection of Talcott Parsons' essays continues to document the central trends of his intellectual career over the past decade, a project initiated by its recent predecessor, Social Systems and the Evolution of Action Theory.  In that volume, Professor Parsons helped to solve problems in the study of the social system by considering them in a broader structural framework, that of the general theory of action. This book is organized so as to produce a further development: illuminating questions in action theory by placing them against a still broader background, that of the "'human condition," considered as a theoretical system.   
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The "piece de resistance" of this volume, as Parsons calls it, is a new and never-before-published paper, "A Paradigm of the Human Condition."  This is the first formal statement of the efforts, by Parsons and a group of his collaborators, to develop a theoretical structure which reflects the relations of the action system with the other components of the human condition - the physical world, the organic world, and the nonempirical category of experience which Parsons terms the "telic system."  The essay represents a breakthrough in the author's attempts to construct a comprehensive conceptual scheme that permits systematic analysis of the "boundary problems" of the system of action in its relations to these other subsystems of the human condition.    ch15_03.jpg 10,983 11/26/99 7:43a
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The fourteen essays which precede "A Paradigm of the Human Condition" set the stage for it by exploring, at various empirical levels, such boundary phenomena of the action system. 
Part I deals with aspects of the sociology of health and illness, Part II with the sociology of higher education, Part III with the sociology of religion.  Each essay is important in the growth of action theory; in addition, the Introductions to each Part, and the General Introduction to the volume as a whole provide valuable insights into Talcott Parsons' intellectual evolution, the main themes of, and influences on; his work, and his view of the significance of each selection.  Thus, Action Theory and the Human Condition offers a new contribution to Parsons' intellectual autobiography, emphasizing his most recent concerns and expressing the latest directions his theoretical work is taking.  		  postindustrial.txt 70,558 11/26/99 6:36a
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Talcott Parsons' career has involved a systematic endeavor to improve our understanding of problems central to a given analytical level by framing them in terms of the next more general level:  to consider the economy in terms of the social system as a whole, to consider the social system in terms of the wider action system (with which his career is most closely identified).  Now, in Action Theory and the Human Condition, he introduces the seminal steps in a new venture, a theoretical advance in the articulation of the general system of action within the broader structural framework of
the Human Condition. 
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Contents   intro_3.txt 18,826 11/3/01 9:45p
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Preface ix   intro_4.txt 15,507 11/3/01 9:53p
General Introduction 1   jacket.doc 23,552 11/3/01 2:26p
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I. SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH AND ILLNESS AND RELATED TOPICS   preface.txt 5,870 11/4/01 9:15a
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1 The Sick Role and the Role of the Physician Reconsidered 17
2 Research with Human Subjects and the "ProfessionaI CompIex" 35
3 Heath and Disease: A Sociological and Action Perspective 66
Introduction 66
Definition of Health 68
Illness and Life Expectancy 72
Social Role of Sickness 73
Health as Interaction Medium 80
Conclusion: Health and Illness in the Human Condition 81
4 The lnterpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud 82
The Nature of Psychoanalytic Theory 84
The Integration of Psychoanalytic Theory in the Sciences Dealing with Living Systems 87
Conclusion 88
II. SOCIOLOGY QF HIGHER EDUCATION 89
Introduction to Part II 91
5 The Future of the University 96
6 Some Considerations on the Growth of the American System of Higher Education and Research 115
7 The University "Bundle": A Study of the Balance Between Differentiation and Integration 133
8 Stability and Change in the American University 154
III. SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION 165
Introduction to Part III 167
9 Christianity 173
The General Orientation and Setting 175
The Early Movement - Doctrine and organization 178
Forms of Christian Institutionalization 181
The Trend to Religious Establishment 183
Formation of the Western Church 185
The Medieval System and the Renaissance 188
The Reformation and Its Aftermath 192
Ascetic Protestantism 195
American Protestantism 199
The Modern Ecumenical Trend 204
Bibliography 209
10 Durkheim on Religion Revisited Another Look at The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life 213
I ... epistemology and the sociology of knowledge gratuitously "dragged in" … 213
II It is here that the famous distinction between the sacred and the profane enters in. … 215
III … there is a persistently recurring note, namely, the emphasis on separateness … 216
IV 218
V 220
VI 221
VII 225
VIII 227
Bibliography 230
11 Belief, Unbelief, and Disbelief 233
Belief, Disbelief, and Unbelief 233
The Rational and Nonrational Components of Action 235
Durkheim and the Moral Component of Society  (note esp. society as object) 238
The Concept of Secularization  (note: religious values institutionalized) 240
The Institutionalization of Religious Values  (note: there developed the secular priesthood… )
From the Reformation to Ecumenicism 244
The Enlightenment and Radical Secularism 246
The New Resurgence of the Nonrational 251
The New Religion of Secular Love  (note: master symbol has become that of community…)
Moral Absolutism, Eroticism, and Aggression  (as Fixation, diffuse enduring solidarity, and Aggression)
Conclusion 259
12 The "Gift of Life" and Its Reciprocation 264
Introduction 264
The Judeo-Christian Symbolization of Life and Death 267
  Early Christianity 270
  Protestantism 275
The Moral Basis of Modern Medical Ethics 278
  The physician's involvement with problems of life and death 278
  "Scientific" medicine and the "existential" problem 281
  Exacerbation of strain by technical advances 286
  Emergence of new definitions of the situation 287
  The restructuring of medical ethics 289
The "Existential" Problem of Death in Medical Perspective 292
  The broadening of the range of "concern "for medical decisions 295
  Organ transplants and the gift complex 296
Conclusion 298
13 Religion in Postindustrial America: The Problem  of Secularization 300
A Paradigm of Christian Symbolism 300
Changes Introduced by the Protestant Movement 305
The Problem of Secularization 307
Some Aspects of the Contemporary Situation 312
The Expressive Revolution 320
IV. THE HUMAN CONDITIQN
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lntroduction to Part IV 325
14 Death in the Western World 331
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II 334
III 337
IV 338
V 340
VI 343
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