Positioning the Parsons project. -- A product of modern European civilization: translating into English Max Weber's Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus. -- A charter for modern sociology: the social system and the ethos of American democracy. -- Encounters with the Frankfurt School: a story of exile, estrangement, and epistemology. -- Beyond sociological imagination: the controversy with C. Wright Mills over power and knowledge. -- "... will not down:" the clash with utilitarianism in the name of the American societal community. -- The Parsons project today: social thought for the twenty-first century.

1. Sociology -- United states -- Methodology
2. Sociology -- United States -- History
3. Sociology -- United States -- History
4. Parsons
5. Talcott
6. 1902-1979