978 - 0 - 521 - 17458 - 9 - Talcott Parsons : An Intellectual Biography
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Parsons’s first major opus, The Structure of Social Action, did not become a classic of sociology when it first appeared in l937.1 Although it was reviewed in both The American Journal of Sociology and the newly established American Sociological Review, and even featured in the widely read The Saturday Review of Literature, such recognition did not produce much acclaim for the book. The review in The Saturday Review of Literature entitled “Is Homo Sapient?” an essay by Robert Bierstedt, who was then based at Columbia University’s Department of Philosophy, addressed Parsons as “a youngHeidelberg-trained sociologist at Harvard.”2 Bierstedt found the book opposed to an objective empiricist approach, which, he said, presumably made it unlikely that “such hard-headed empiricists as the authors of ‘Middletown in Transition’ would bother to read The Structure of Social Action.” In his view, it proposed a subjective approach which was “the ‘voluntaristic theory of action’ growing out of . . . theoretical convergence” that claimed to be able to “give sociology a well-defined field of its own.” Bierstedt did not recommend Parsons’s book. He could not see in it an answer to the problems of sociology, let alone a “charter for sociology” as it would be hailed
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