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Do you think Talcott Parsons gave an adequate theory of social change? Justify your answer.

  • UPSC 2021
  • Education System and Social Change

Talcott Parsons was accused by C. Wright Mills (The Sociological Imagination, 1959) of building a "grand theory" of order in which nothing could ever change. Parsons answered with a systematic neo-evolutionary account. Whether it is adequate depends on what a theory of change must deliver: a source, a mechanism, a direction, and an explanation of…

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