Domination and power

Philip Cassell

pp. 212-283

in: Philip Cassell (ed), The Giddens Reader, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1993

Abstract

As the most eminent modern representative of functionalism, Talcott Parsons has been consistently attacked for his neglect of issues of conflict and power.¹ It is therefore of some interest that Parsons should have devoted a number of his more recent writings to a discussion of power and related phenomena, explicit reference to which is conspicuous by its relative absence in the bulk of his earlier works.²

Cited authors

Parsons Talcott