Neofunctionalism and after / edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander

Includes bibliographical references and index

part I. Origins of a Theoretical Project. 1. From Functionalism to Neofunctionalism: Creating a Position in the Field of Social Theory. 2. Traditions and Competition: Preface to a Postpositivist Approach to Knowledge Cumulation / Jeffrey C. Alexander and Paul Colomy part II. Reinventing Parsons: Reconstructing his Tradition. 3. Neofunctionalism Today: Reconstructing a Theoretical Tradition / Jeffrey C. Alexander and Paul Colomy. 4. Parsons' Structure in American Sociology. 5. "Formal Sociology" is Not Multidimensional: Breaking the "Code" in Parsons' Fragment on Simmel. 6. On Choosing One's Intellectual Predecessors: Why Charles Camic is Wrong about Parsons' Early Work / Jeffrey C. Alexander and Giuseppe Sciortino. 7. Structure, Value, Action: What Did the Early Parsons Mean and What Should He Have Said Instead? part III. After Neofunctionalism: Its Contribution to Theory Creation Today. 8. The New Theoretical Movement in Sociology. 9. After Neofunctionalism: Action, Culture, and Civil Society