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Write short note on Talcott Parsons’ idea of ‘moving equilibrium’.

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  • Sociological Thinkers

Talcott Parsons borrowed the idea of equilibrium from physiology, but rejected the reading of it as a fixed resting point. An organism stays in balance while it grows and ages; so can a society. This is moving (dynamic) equilibrium: change is not the enemy of order but the way order is kept.

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  • Static and moving equilibrium
  • How the equilibrium moves
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  • Critique
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