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Ideology and Social Knowledge (Hardcover)
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Ideology and Social Knowledge (Hardcover)
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This book analyzes Talcott Parsons' largest-scale effort to
overcome the relativism and subjectivism of the social sciences.
Harold J. Bershady sets forth Parsons' version of the
characteristics desirable for social knowledge, showing that
Parsons deems the relativistic and subjectivistic arguments as
powerful challenges to the validity of social knowledge. Bershady
maintains that all Parsons' intellectual labors exhibit a deep and
abiding concern for social knowledge. From his first major work in
the 1930s to his later writings on social evolution, Parsons'
theoretical aim has been to provide an unassailable answer to the
question, "how is social knowledge possible?" Ideological
criticisms of Parsons' work, Bershady argues, not only miss his
awareness of ideological influences upon social thought, but also
miss the logical and epistemological strands of his thinking. This
book sheds light on the persistent importance of the work of a
major theoretical sociologist of the twentieth century. It also
brings into the open and discusses issues of deepest concern to the
philosophy and methodology of all of the social sciences.
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