Talcott Parsons: complementarity, stability, change (or, The fitfies in the U.S.A.- Cold War culture)

(That theory and that culture were, it seems, less uni-dimensional than I surmised. GC)

http://ccs.research.yale.edu/alexander/articles/1981/RevolutionReactionReform.pdf (1981) (REVOLUTION, REACTION, AND REFORM:

THE CHANGE THEORY OF PARSONS’S MIDDLE PERIOD')

symbols and strategies/swidler (1986)

http://instructional1.calstatela.edu/bberk/Soc414/Functionalist_developments_article.doc (1986)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talcott_Parsons