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How is social equilibrium maintained in Parsonian framework?

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In The Social System (1951), Talcott Parsons defined equilibrium as a state in which the role expectations of ego and alter complement each other. Each does what the other expects because both follow the same institutionalised values. Deviance and outside shocks keep upsetting this fit, so equilibrium must be produced continuously by mechanisms at several…

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  • Institutionalisation of a common value system
  • Socialisation: equilibrium built into personality
  • Social control: handling the deviance socialisation misses
  • Boundary maintenance and balanced interchange
  • Tension management and moving equilibrium
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