EMCA Seminar: 2020: Bibliography
Theme: From Parsons to Garfinkel
[1] Garfinkel's reading of Parsons on "Structured Strain" - Chapter for Ad Hoc Parsons Partial Draft for Illustrative Use of "Structured Strain":
[Parsons' papers related to the chapter]
[Other related works]
RE: Parsons 1943
RE: Parsons 1947
[Parsons and Garfinkel's Life Events]
[Parsons' papers related to the chapter]
- 1942a Age and Sex in the Social Structure of the United States.(>Essays, revised edition, chapter V) [-> Partial Draft ... "Structured Strain": A Chapter in Parsons Primer.]
- 1943 The Kinship System of the Contemporary United States.(>Essays, revised edition, chapter IX)[<- Davis, K. 1936, 1937, 1937(w. Warner), 1940a, 1940b][1955?-> Partial Draft ... "Structured Strain": A Chapter in Parsons Primer.]
- 1947 Certain Primary Sources and Patterns of Aggression in the Social Structure of the Western World. Psychiatry. (=Essays, revised edition, chapter XIV) (?-> Partial Draft ... "Structured Strain": A Chapter in Parsons Primer)
[Other related works]
RE: Parsons 1943
- 1940a Davis, K. "The Sociology of Parent-Youth Conflict,"
- 1940b Davis, K. "The Child and the Social Structure,"
- 1937 Davis, K. & W. L. Warner "Structural Analysis of Kinship,"
- 1937 Davis, K. "The Sociology of Prostitution,"
- 1936 Davis. K. (1908 -1997) "Jealousy and Sexual Property,"
RE: Parsons 1947
- 1937 Kardiner, A. The individual and his society : the psychodynamics of primitive social organization / by Abram Kardiner ; with a foreword and two ethnological reports by Ralph Linton
- RE: Abram Kardiner's work - 1968 Harris, Marvin The Rise of Anthropological Theory: A History of Theories of Culture. (Updated edition, 2001 Rawman).
- 1940 Linton, Ralph A Neglected Aspect of Social Organization, American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 45, No. 6 (May, 1940), pp. 870-886.
[Parsons and Garfinkel's Life Events]
- 1937 The Structure of Social Action. McGraw-Hill.
- “Since 1937, Parsons has dealt with the theory of social action systematically, rather than historically. His efforts in this direction have been presented in courses at Harvard University and in a still-unpublished manuscript. Also since 1937, Parsons has come to be increasingly interested in … Freud and the diverse trends stemming from him.” (Barber 1949: 351.)[=Referring presumably to Parsons 2010(1939)]Edward H. Hartshorne, Robert Bierstedt, Kingsley Davis, George Devereux, Robert Merton, participated in a discussion group, under Parsons’ guidance,which occupied itself with influence, authority & propaganda in Nazi Germany. (Gerhardt 2002: 65-6.)
- 1939b (published in 2010 as V.Lidz & H. Staubmann eds. 2010) Actor, Situation and Normative Pattern: An Essay in the Theory of Social Action. [The manuscript was probably used as teaching material from 1940 until 1951 when it was supplanted by the drafts of Parsons 1951a & 1951b (Lidz, 2010 “Preface”, p. 2.]
- 1939 [Garfinkel] University of North Carolina (M.A. in Sociology) Master's Thesis: "Inter- and Intra- Homicides in Ten Courts in North Carolina, 1930 - 1940"
- 1940 Znaniecki,F., The Social Role of the Man of Knowledge, Columbia University Press.
- 1940 "Methodological Consequences of the Sociology of Knowledge, " American Journal of Sociology, 46: 330.
- October 1940 - April 1941 Parsons & Schutz exchanged letters [Sprondel ed., 1977(German), 1978(English)]
- Family kinship system & women are of his interest as to liberation from authoritarianism of Germany. (1943-45).(ibid.)
- 1945a The Present Position and Prospects of Systematic Theory in Sociology. (>Essays, revised edition, chapter XI)
- 1945 Merton, R.K. Sociological Theory, American Journal of Sociology [Referring Lazarsfeld & Merton, formal deduction & Codification (induction) , as sociological theories' essense were emphasized. Merton was an eminent student of Parsons in mid 30's.]
- 1946 Department of Social Relations at Harvard University was established (Johnson & Johnson 1986:131.)
- 1946-1951 Harold Garfinkel came to, and stayed at Harvard University, Department of Social Relations (Ph.D. in Sociology, June, 1952: Dissertation: The Perception of the Other: A Study in Social Order. [Dissertation Committee: Talcott Parsons, Frederick Mosteller, Robert F. Bales, See also, Garfinkel 2002:83-84.]
- January 1949a Essays in Sociological Theory Pure and Applied. 1st edition. The Free Press. [The list of articles (the year of publication) Part 1 Sociological Theory and Its Historical Roots; I. The Position of Sociological Theory (1948) ; II The Present Position and Prospects of Systematic Theory in Sociology (1945) ; III A Selection from “Toward a Common Language for the Area of Social Science; VI The Theoretical Development of the Sociology of Religion; V Max Weber [Introduction of Parsons translated/edited. 1947); Part II Essays in the Application of Sociological Theory; VI The Role of Ideas in Social Action; VII An Analytical Approach to the Theory of Social Stratification (1940) VIII The Professions and Social Structure (1939); IX The Motivation of Economic Activities (1940) ; X Age and Sex in the Social Structure of the United States (1942); XI The Kinship System of the Contemporary United States (1943); XII Certain Primary Sources and Patterns of Aggression in the Social Structure of the Western World (1947);XIII Propaganda and Social Control (1942) ; XIV The Problem of Controlled Institutional Change (1945); Part III A Biographical Sketch of Talcott Parsons by Bernard Barber; Bibliography of Talcott Parsons]
- ((Chapter I “The Position of Sociological Theory, Chapter III “A Selection from ‘Toward A Common Language for the Area of Social Science,” Chapter V “Max Weber” (=“Introduction” by Parsons to Weber Theory of Social and Economic Organization, 1947), are omitted in Essays 1954 revised edition because of addition of Chapters XVIII and XIX.(“This [omission in the revised edition] is largely because the classification set forth there is now completely obsolete, in the light of the much more elaborate attempt at classification of institutional patterns developed in Chapters III and IV of The Social System. The main interest of the early version is as a first stage of the scheme which has been much more fully developed in this later publication.” Parsons 1954:12( “introduction”)) ((Chapters of Revised edition, though the articles are published before 1949, but are not included in the original edition are: VI. Democracy and Social Structure in Pre-Nazi Germany (1942); VII. Some Sociological Aspects of the Fascist Movements (1942) ; X. The Theoretical Development of the Sociology of Religion (1944) ; XIII. Population and the Social Structure of Japan ( 1946 ) . Chapters of Revised edition that are published after 1949 and are oncluded in the Revised edition are: XV. Social Classes and Class Conflict in the Light of Recent Sociological Theory (1949); XVI. Psychoanalysis and the Social Structure (1950) ; XVII. The Prospects of Sociological Theory (1950) ; XVIII. A Sociologist Looks at the Legal Profession ( 1952 ) ; XIX. A Revised Analytical Approach to the Theory of Social Stratification (1953) ]
- 1949b Social Classes and Class Conflict in the Light of Recent Sociological Theory.(Essays, revised edition, chapter XV)
- March 1949c The Structure of Social Action. 2nd edition. The Free Press
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