Talcott Parsons

Series: The International Library of Essays in the History of Social and Political Thought

Talcott Parsons Talcott Parsons is probably the most important US sociologist of the twentieth century. His career spanned the early formation of sociology as an academic discipline and he was active during a key period of its institutionalization in the USA in the 1940s and 1950s. This collection brings together the leading essays covering the work of Parsons.