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According to Wikipedia, Talcott Parsons was an American sociologist of the classical tradition, best known for his social action theory and structural functionalism. Parsons is considered one of the most influential figures in sociology in the 20th century. After earning a PhD in economics, he served on the faculty at Harvard University from 1927 to 1973. In 1930, he was among the first professors in its new sociology department. Later, he was instrumental in the establishment of the Department of Social Relations at Harvard.

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The Theory of Social and Economic Organization (1948) (11500)
The Social System (1953) (5989)
Toward a General Theory of Action (1952) (2899)
Family, socialization and interaction process (1956) (2361)
The Structure of Social Action (1938) (2146)
Structure and Process in Modern Societies (1961) (1346)
The Professions and Social Structure (1939) (896)
The System of Modern Societies (1972) (865)
Max Weber, the theory of social and economic organization (1948) (776)
Societies; evolutionary and comparative perspectives (1966) (771)
SUGGESTIONS FOR A SOCIALOGICAL APPROCH TO THE THEORY OF ORGANIZATIONS (1956) (752)
Essays in Sociological Theory (1954) (647)
Illness and the role of the physician: a sociological perspective. (1951) (610)
Evolutionary Universals in Society (1964) (580)
Working papers in the theory of action (1981) (536)
Sociological theory and modern society (1968) (514)
Economy and Society: A Study in the Integration of Economic and Social Theory (1964) (438)
Action theory and the human condition (1978) (416)
Social Structure and Personality (1964) (408)
ON THE CONCEPT OF INFLUENCE (1963) (399)
The Social Structure of the Family (1959) (394)
An Analytical Approach to the Theory of Social Stratification (1940) (392)
The Mind and Society (379)
THE KINSHIP SYSTEM OF THE CONTEMPORARY UNITED STATES (1943) (346)
Politics And Social Structure (1970) (306)
Social Systems and the Evolution of Action Theory.@@@The Evolution of Societies. (1978) (301)
The evolution of societies (1977) (208)
Equality and Inequality in Modern Society, or Social Stratification Revisited (1970) (201)
THEORIES OF SOCIETY (1961) (195)
Essays in sociological theory : pure and applied (1949) (192)
Law in Modern Society (1976) (174)
The Distribution of Power in American Society (1957) (158)
PART 2. Values, Motives, and Systems of Action (1951) (153)
The Incest Taboo in Relation to Social Structure and the Socialization of the Child (1954) (150)
On the Concept of Value‐Commitments (1968) (145)
Pattern Variables Revisited: A Response to Robert Dubin (1960) (124)
The superego and the theory of social systems. (1952) (121)
The Place of Ultimate Values in Sociological Theory (1935) (120)
On Building Social System Theory: A Personal History. (1970) (113)
"Capitalism" In Recent German Literature: Sombart and Weber (1928) (105)
Certain primary sources and patterns of aggression in the social structure of the Western world. (1947) (104)
Family, Socialization and Interaction Process. Glencoe, IL (The Free Press) 1955. (1955) (104)
Some Reflections on “The Nature and Significance of Economics” (1934) (102)
The theory of social action: The correspondence of Alfred Schutz and Talcott Parsons (1979) (101)
The theory of social and economic organization, 1st Amer. ed. (1947) (98)
The Negro American. (1966) (88)
The Motivation of Economic Activities (1940) (88)
The Prospects of Sociological Theory (1950) (82)
Social structure and the development of personality; Freud's contribution to the integration of psychology and sociology. (1958) (76)
Wants and Activities in Marshall (1931) (76)
Sociological Elements in Economic Thought: I. Historical (1935) (73)
Economics and Sociology: Marshall in Relation to the Thought of his Time (1932) (73)
The Role of Theory in Social Research (1938) (67)
Social Systems and the Evolution of Action Theory@@@Action and the Human Condition (1980) (58)
Some Considerations on the Theory of Social Change (1970) (57)
The Position of Sociological Theory (1948) (56)
The "Gift of Life" and Its Reciprocation (1972) (55)
The Theory of Social and Economic Organization. (1948) (49)
Some Sociological Aspects of the Fascist Movements (1942) (49)
Considerations on the American academic system (1968) (48)
The Role of Ideas in Social Action (1938) (48)
Talcott Parsons on institutions and social evolution: Selected writings (1982) (44)
Sociological Elements in Economic Thought: II. The Analytical Factor View (1935) (44)
Age, Social Structure, and Socialization in Higher Education. (1970) (42)
Some Comments on the State of the General Theory of Action (1953) (42)
Explorations in general theory in social science : essays in honor of Talcott Parsons (1979) (40)
The Problem of Controlled Institutional Change (1945) (39)
Lives Through the Years. (1967) (38)
1965 Harlan Paul Douglass Lectures: Religion in a Modern Pluralistic Society (1966) (38)
Social organization : a general systems and role theory perspective (1973) (38)
Remarks on Education and the Professions (1937) (38)
Death in American Society – a Brief Working Paper (1963) (37)
"Capitalism" in Recent German Literature: Sombart and Weber (Concluded) (1929) (37)
On institutions and social evolution : selected writings (1985) (37)
Religious and Economic Symbolism in the Western World (1979) (34)
Max Weber: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. (1931) (33)
Law as an Intellectual Stepchild (1977) (33)
Psychoanalysis and the social structure. (1950) (30)
Propaganda and Social Control (1942) (29)
Social Change and Medical Organization in the United States : A Sociological Perspective (1963) (27)
The Strange Case of Academic Organization. (1971) (27)
Comment on "Parsons' Interpretation of Durkheim" and on "Moral Freedom Through Understanding in Durkheim" (1975) (23)
Faculty Teaching Goals, 1968-1973 (1976) (21)
Levels of Organization and the Mediation of Social Interaction (1964) (21)
The Theoretical Development of the Sociology of Religion: A Chapter in the History of Modern Social Science1 (1944) (20)
Max Weber and the Contemporary Political Crisis (1942) (20)
Undergraduate Teaching Environments: Normative Orientations to Teaching Among Faculty in the Higher Educational System* (1978) (18)
The Theoretical Development of the Sociology of Religion: A Chapter in the History of Modern Social Science (1944) (18)
CLYDE KAY MABEN KLUCKHOHN 1905–1960 (1962) (18)
Concrete Systems and "Abstracted" Systems@@@Living Systems. (1979) (17)
Sociology, 1941-46 (1948) (17)
Concrete systems and “abstracted” systems (1980) (16)
Culture and Social Systems Revisited. (1972) (16)
H. M. Robertson on Max Weber and His School (1935) (16)
Reply to Cohen, Hazelrigg and Pope (1976) (15)
Toward a Healthy Maturity (1960) (14)
Social Organization: A General Systems and Role Theory Perspective. (1974) (14)
Theory in the Humanities and Sociology. (1970) (14)
"Max Weber"@@@Max Weber: An Intellectual Portrait. (1960) (13)
Comment on R. Stephen Warner's "Toward a Redefinition of Action Theory: Paying the Cognitive Element Its Due" (1978) (13)
6. THE UNIVERSITY AND THE “INTELLECTUALS” (1973) (11)
Readings from Talcott Parsons (1985) (11)
The Science Legislation and the Role of the Social Sciences (1946) (10)
Commentary on Clark (1972) (10)
American sociology : perspectives, problems, methods (1968) (10)
9. EPILOGUE: SOCIAL-STRUCTURAL DIMENSIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION (1973) (10)
Old Age as Consummatory Phase (1963) (10)
REJOINDER TO BAUER AND COLEMAN (1963) (10)
2. Social Science: A Basic National Resource (1986) (9)
Images of Man and the Sociology of Religion (1961) (8)
Studies in the Science of Society (1938) (8)
Stability and Change in the American University. (1974) (7)
Economics and Sociology.Adolf Lowe (1937) (6)
Reply to Professor Knight (1940) (5)
Social Structure & Personality (1965) (5)
Science Legislation and the Social Sciences (1947) (5)
Theory, Metatheory, and Comparative Politics@@@Comparative Politics: A Developmental Approach@@@Comparative Perspectives: Theories and Methods@@@The Methodology of Comparative Research@@@Comparative Sociology: A Codification of Cross-Societal Analysis@@@Modern Comparative Politics@@@Politics and Soc (1971) (5)
Sociology of higher education (1980) (5)
National Science Legislation (1946) (4)
Parson's Theory of Social Evolution@@@The System of Modern Societies. (1972) (4)
Some trends of change in American society; their bearing on medical education. (1958) (4)
Comment on: “Current Folklore in the Criticisms of Parsonian Action Theory” (1974) (4)
Capitalism and Social Theory: An Analysis of the Writings of Marx, Durkheim, and Max Weber. By Giddens Anthony. (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1971. Pp. 261. $11.00.) (1973) (4)
Commentary on Herbert Gintis, “A Radical Analysis of Welfare Economics and Individual Development” (1975) (4)
Clarence Ayres's Economics and Sociology (1976) (3)
The relations between biological and sociocultural theory (1976) (3)
Supplementary Report of the Special Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure in the Quest for National Security (1956) (3)
Navaho Witchcraft.Clyde Kluckhohn (1946) (3)
3. A Psychological Model (1951) (3)
Explorations in Economics. Notes and Essays Contributed in Honour of F. W. Taussig. (1938) (3)
SOME PRINCIPAL CHARACTERISTICS OF INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES (1960) (2)
Book Review:What It Means to Be a Doctor. Dwight Anderson (1940) (2)
TECHNICAL APPENDIX: SOME GENERAL THEORETICAL PARADIGMS (1973) (2)
Knowledge and society : American sociology (1968) (2)
Readings on premodern societies (1972) (2)
Review Article@@@The Sociology of Religion (1965) (2)
The Aging in American Society (1962) (2)
The Structure of Social Action.@@@Bio-Politics. (1939) (2)
Book Review:Embattled Reason: Essays on Social Knowledge. Reinhard Bendix (1972) (2)
National Science Legislation….: Part 2. The Case for the Social Sciences (1947) (1)
Commitment to Welfare@@@The Elementary Forms of the Religious Left@@@The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism@@@Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (1977) (1)
Book Review:Modern Capitalism: Its Origin and Development Henri See (1930) (1)
Essays in Sociological Theory; Pure and Applied@@@Social Theory and Social Structure (1950) (1)
The Relations between Biological and Socio-Cultural Theory (1976) (1)
Social Structure and Political Orientation (1960) (1)
GERTH, H. H., and C. WRIGHT MILLS (Eds. and Trans.). From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology. Pp. 490. New York: Oxford University Press, 1946. $5.00 (1947) (1)
Perspectives of the aging process. Sociocultural pressures and expectations. (1968) (0)
Social Science and Theology, America and the Future of Theology Lecture (1965) (0)
Ends and Means.Aldous Huxley (1938) (0)
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CHAPTER IV. POPULATION AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE (1946) (0)
The Negro American. Edited and with Introductions by Talcott Parsons and Kenneth B. Clark and with a Foreword by Lyndon B. Johnson (1966) (0)
Recent developments in evolutionary theory — especially by biologist (0)
In Memoriam: Alfred L. Kroeber 1876-1960 (1961) (0)
Religion, culture, and mental health : proceedings of the 3rd Academy symposium, 1959 (1961) (0)
8. CONTINUITY AND CHANGE: SOME PROBABLE TRENDS (1973) (0)
Book Review: Human Relations: Reason in Society: Five Types of Decisions and Their Social Conditions (1963) (0)
Comment on Professor Kolb's Reply (1962) (0)
3 Adaptation (0)
SOCIAL ORGANIZATION: A GENERAL SYSTEMS AND ROLE THEORY PERSPECTIVE. By Alvin L. Bertrand. Philadelphia: Davis, 1972. 266 pp. $5.50 (1974) (0)
Book Review:Free Society and Moral Crisis. Robert Cooley Angell (1959) (0)
FANFANI, AMINTORE. Catholicism, Protes tantism and Capitalism. Pp. v, 224. New York: Sheed & Ward, 1935. $2.00 (1936) (0)
7. DYNAMIC PROCESS IN THE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM: THE NATURE OF THE CRISIS (1973) (0)
Talcott Parsons on Economy and Society@@@The Integration of Economic and Sociological Theory (1988) (0)
3. THE CORE SECTOR OF THE UNIVERSITY: GRADUATE TRAINING AND RESEARCH (1973) (0)
Cleavage and Conflict in Modern Type Societies (1978) (0)
5. THE UNIVERSITY AND THE APPLIED PROFESSIONS: THE PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS (1973) (0)
Objectivity and Values in the Social Sciences (1964) (0)
4. GENERAL EDUCATION AND STUDENTRY SOCIALIZATION: THE UNDERGRADUATE COLLEGE (1973) (0)
American Medicine Mobilizes.James Rorty (1940) (0)
Book Department (1964) (0)
Values and the control of social behavior: The case of money (1959) (0)
Economic Efficiency and Social Welfare.Alec L. Macfie (1945) (0)
The future of the nineteenth century idea of a university (1968) (0)
Hurst's Law and Social Process in U. S. History@@@Law and Social Process in United States History. (1962) (0)
Book Review:The First New Nation: The United States in Historical and Comparative Perspective. Seymour Martin Lipset (1964) (0)
Parsons on the Human Condition@@@Action Theory and the Human Condition. (1980) (0)
2. THE COGNITIVE COMPLEX: KNOWLEDGE, RATIONALITY, LEARNING, COMPETENCE, INTELLIGENCE (1973) (0)
Book Review:The Integration of American Society. Robert C. Angell (1942) (0)
Review of L. T. Hobhouse, Sociology and Philosophy. A Centenary Collection of Essays and Articles (1973) (0)
Social Science: The Public Disenchantment. (1976) (0)
III. ON STINCHCOMBE'S CONCEPTUALIZATION OF POWER PHENOMENA (1969) (0)
Max Weber: An Intellectual Portrait. Reinhard Bendix (1961) (0)

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