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Ideology is a system of beliefs, held in common by the members of a collectivity.
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A fact is not itself a phenomenon at all, but a proposition about one or more phenomena.
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Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.
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The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.
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If capitalism begins as the practical idealism of the aspiring bourgeoisie, it ends... as an orgy of materialism.
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The most elementary communication is not possible without some degree of conformity to the conventions of the symbolic system.
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Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed.
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Sociology should...be thought of as a science of action—of the ultimate common value element in its relations to the other elements of action.
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The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
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Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.
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If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there is another variable missing.
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A social system is a mode of organization of action elements relative to the persistence or ordered processes of change of the interactive patterns of a plurality of individual actors.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
Talcott Parsons
Born:
December 13, 1902
Died:
May 8, 1979
(aged 76)
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