SOC 3312 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Talcott Parsons, Bronisław Malinowski, Anthony Giddens

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3312
• Professor: Abdoulaye Gueye

Document Summary

Introduction: two major contributors to structural functionalism, parsons - the austere scholar, merton -the wanna-be artist who became a academic. Ii) contextualizing structural functionalism: with whom sf contends, the debt of parsons. Iii) contribution of sf to sociology: parson"s conception of society, books that became canons, social action as a product of three systems, merton"s touch. Dominance of structural functionalism would last until 1970s. Born in colorado, to baptist family, his father was an ordained minister and scholar, he was the president of mariette college in ohio. He enrolled in biology and philosophy at the same time, upon his graduation he made the decision to move to europe, he first stopped in london. In london he enrolled at the london school of economics and science for his master"s degree. Move to germany to attend heidelberg university. He has the chance to study under bronislaw malinowski. He met max weber at the heidelberg university.