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Critically examine AGIL model of Talcott Parsons. How far is this model capable of explaining social changes in society?

  • UPSC 1993
  • Sociological Thinkers

Talcott Parsons, with Robert F. Bales and Edward Shils (Working Papers in the Theory of Action, 1953), proposed that every action system must solve four functional problems. The AGIL scheme became the core of structural functionalism. It classifies structures well but explains change only partly.

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