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- Title
Parsons' Economic Sociology: A Failure of Will.
- Authors
Gould, Mark
- Abstract
In the Marshall Lectures and in Economy and Society Parsons endeavored to demonstrate that economic theory was a special case Iii the general theory of social systems. He then attempted to show that the parameters of macroeconomic theory could be analyzed as variables within a general social systems theory. But Parsons' economic sociology failed to redeem its promise. He did not succeed in using macroeconomic theory as the basis for the formulation of a propositional macrosociology; nor did he sociologically reconstruct the logic of utilitarian, neoclassical economic theory.
- Subjects
PARSONS, Talcott, 1902-1979; SOCIOLOGISTS; SOCIOECONOMICS; ECONOMICS; MACROSOCIOLOGY
- Publication
Sociological Inquiry, 1991, Vol 61, Issue 1, p89
- ISSN
0038-0245
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.1111/j.1475-682X.1991.tb00267.x