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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