On the general Nature and Function of the Systematic theory and the Structural-Functional Method of Parsons

Abstract

(1) I wrote up this treatise as a prart of my treatise, “The Nature and Function of the systematic theory in sociology, and, the Structural-Functional-Historical Method of the Social System, and particularly the method of the Structural-Functional Requisite Analysis-on the focus on my understanding of the sociological methodological theory of suck the recent American structural-functionalist, as parsons and Levy, etc, on the social system. (2) this time, I have handled the general nature and function of the systematic theory, and the structural-functional method of parsons. I have presented and interpreted it in dividing three parts : (1) The character of the systematic theory. (2) the function and the final aim of the systematic thory, and particularly the fundamental systematic thory, or the fundamental conceptual scheme. (3) I have refered to his treatises : ” The present position and prospects of systematic theory in sociology “” The position of sociological theory “., in Talcott Parsons Essays in sociological theory, pure and Applied 1949, ” Values Motives and systems of Action., : in Parsons and Shils (edt), Toward a General Theory of Action, 1951, and 1st chapter of “The social system” 1951. (4) The aim of this study-I have projected this study as a methodological work for my understanding of the structural-functional theory of the social system. (5) My criticism of the thought of Parsons and the problems whether this method is valid or not for the systematic observation and deseription and explanation of the structure and change of the social system as a whole is left after I shall present the structural-functional method of Levy and others. particularly in connection with my coneret study of social systems.