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The Theory of Social and Economic Organization
Talcott Parsons
Contributor
A.M. Henderson
Contributor
Max Weber
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Table of Contents
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Preface
Contents
Introduction
The Author and His Career
Weber’s Methodology of Social Science
Weber’s ‘Economic Sociology’
The Institutionalization of Authority
The Modern Western Institutional System
I. The Fundamental Concepts of Sociology
Prefatory Note
The Definitions of Sociology and of Social Action
a. The Methodological Foundations of Sociology
b. The Concepts of Social Action
The Types of Social Action
The Concept of Social Relationship
Modes of Orientation of Social Action
The Concept of Legitimate Order
The Types of Legitimate Order
The Bases of Legitimacy of an Order
The Concept of Conflict
Types of Solidary Social Relationships
Open and Closed Relationships
Representation and Responsibility
The Concept of 'Corporate Group' and Its Types
Types of Order in Corporate Groups
Types of Order Governing Action in Corporate Groups
Types of Organization and of Corporate Groups
Power, Authority, and Imperative Control
Political and Religious Corporate Groups
II. Sociological Categories of Economic Action
Prefatory Note
The Concept of Economic Action
The Concept of Utility
Modes of the Economic Orientation of Action
Typical Measures of Rational Economic Action
Types of Economic Corporate Groups
Media of Exchange, Means of Payment, Money
The Primary Consequences of the Use of Money--Credit
The Market
The Formal and Substantive Rationality of Economic Action
The Rationality of Monetary Accounting--Management and Budgeting
The Concept and Types of Profit Making--The Role of Capital
Calculations in Kind
The Formal and Substantive Rationality of a Money Economy
Market Economies and Planned Economies
Types of Economic 'Division of Labor'
Types of the Technical Division of Labor
Types of Technical Division of Labor--(cont.)
Social Aspects of the Division of Labor
Social Aspects of the Division of Labor--(cont.)
III. The Types of Authority and Imperative Co-ordination
The Basis of Legitimacy
The Definition, Conditions, and Types of Imperative Control
The Three Pure Types of Legitimate Authority
Legal Authority
Traditional Authority
Charismatic Authority
The Routinization of Charisma
The Routinization of Charisma and Its Consequences
cont.
cont.
Feudalism
Feudalism Based on Beneficies and Other Types
Combinations of the Different Types of Authority
The Transformation of Charisma in an Anti-Authoritarian Direction
Collegiality and the Separation of Powers
The Functionally Specific Separation of Power
The Relations of the Political Separation of Powers to the Economic Situation
Parties: The Concept of Parties and Their Features
Types of Government of Corporate Groups Which Minimize Imperative Powers: The Role of Representation
Anti-Authoritarian Forms of Government
'Amateurs' or 'Non-Professional' Types of Administrative Personnel
Representation
The Principle Forms and Characteristics of Representation
Representation by the Agents of Interest Groups
IV. Social Stratification and Class Structure
Concepts
The Concepts of Class and Status
The Significance of Acquisition Classes
Social Strata and Their Status
Notes
Index
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