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Write short note: Talcott Parsons’ concept of social system.

  • UPSC 2007
  • Sociological Thinkers

For Talcott Parsons (The Social System, 1951), the social system is the answer to the old "problem of order": why action does not dissolve into a Hobbesian war of all against all. He defined it as a plurality of actors interacting in a situation with a physical or environmental aspect, motivated to optimise gratification, and…

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  • From action to system
  • Structure of the social system
  • Properties
  • Illustration
  • Criticisms
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