Talcott Parsons’ career spanning nearly half a century can be divided into three phases. These phases include the social action school, traditional functionalism, and finally general or modern systems theory. In this paper based on literature review, macro-functionalism approach of Parsons, one pioneers is mentioned. Also, in context sociology religion, although Parsons rarely wrote about much ...

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This essay begins from a critical issue in the sociology of science: how do scientific theories change, if, contrary to empiricism, they are not simply falsified? An alternative to Kuhn's position is proposed, and in the substance of the essay I apply this alternative to the sociological theory of Talcott Parsons. After discussing its profound impact and some historical reasons for this fact, I...

I was invited by Olivier Danvy and Carolyn Talcott to contribute to this special issue of Higher Order and Symbolic Computation in honour of Peter Landin. They were keen to include some technical contributions, and I recalled my very first piece of theoretical work, which had only appeared as a 1981 Queen Mary College technical report, and which seemed as if it might be appropriate for several ...