Talcott Parsons - Publications (Books)

Publications (Books)

• 1937, The Structure of Social Action
• 1939, Action, Situation and Normative Pattern (Published by Lidz & Staubmann in German in 2004).
• 1951, The Social System
• 1951, Toward a General Theory of Action - with Shils, Tolman, Stouffer and Kluckhohn et al.
• 1953, Working Papers in the Theory of Action - with Robert F. Bales and Edward A. Shils.
• 1954, Essays in Sociological Theory
• 1955, Family, Socialization and Interaction Process - Robert F. Bales and James Olds.
• 1956, Economy and Society - with N. Smelser
• 1960, Structure and Process in Modern Societies
• 1961, Theories of Society - with Edward Shils, Kaspar D. Naegele and Jesse R. Pitts
• 1964, Social Structure and Personality
• 1966, Societies: Evolutionary and Comparative Perspectives online edition
• 1967, Sociological Theory and Modern Society
• 1969, Politics and Social Structure
• 1971, The System of Modern Societies
• 1973, The American University - with Gerald Platt
• 1977, Social Systems and the Evolution of Action Theory
• 1977, The Evolution of Societies
• 1978, Action Theory and the Human Condition
• 1978, The Theory of Social Action: the Correspondence of Alfred Schutz and Talcott Parsons Edited by R. Gatthoff.
• 1983. The Structure and Change of the Social System Edited by Washio Kurata (lectures from Parsons' second visit to Japan).
• 1986, Social Science: A Basic National Resource Edited by S.Z. Klausner & Victor Lidz. (Written around 1948).
• 1991, The Early Essays (Essays from the late 1920s and the 1930s). Edited by Charles Camic.
• 1993, On National Socialism (Essays from the late 1930s and the 1940s). Edited by Uta Gerhardt.
• 2007, American Society: Toward a Theory of Societal Community Edited by Giuseppe Sciortino. Paradigm ISBN 978-1-59451-227-8.