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Discuss Talcott Parsons’ contribution to the analysis of social change.

  • UPSC 1996
  • Sociological Thinkers

Talcott Parsons was long dismissed as a theorist of order who could not explain change. His work in fact moved in two stages: an early account of change within the social system, and a later neo-evolutionary theory of change of whole societies. Together they make one of the most systematic functionalist theories of social change.

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  • Stage 1: change within the system (1951)
  • Stage 2: evolutionary theory (1964–1971)
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