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Andreski does not linger long in generalities; he documents his charges and spares few of the luminaries of social science in the process. For instance, he finds the patriarch of modern sociology, Talcott Parsons, guilty of "monumental muddleheadedness" and of making "the simplest truth appear unfathomably obscure." What particularly riles Andreski about Parsons is his "voluntaristic theory of action," which in essence states that to understand behavior it is necessary to take into account men's wishes, beliefs, resources and decisions. This idea, writes Andreski, represents "an important step in the mental development of mankind, but it must have...
...device, a natural gas fuel cell the size of a small home furnace, was demonstrated by the Connecticut Natural Gas Corp. in Talcott Village, a planned community near Hartford, Conn. Called
...deadline was 10 p.m. E.D.T. on Saturday. The U.S. State Department, which set up a round-the-clock command post in Washington under Middle East Specialist Talcott W. Seelye, stayed in constant touch with its embassy in Amman. But a U.S. official who tried to drive out to the airstrip was turned back, and frequently diplomatic personnel could not even venture into Amman's streets...
...Talcott Parsons, professor of Sociology and one of the Soc Rel Department's founders in 1946, said last night that he is "broadly in sympathy" with the idea of an autonomous sociology department...
...Talcott Parsons, professor of Sociology, walked into the Soc Rel sherry party yesterday afternoon and said, with significant experiential overtones, "Is this something special, or is this the same old Friday afternoon...