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Edited by Max Black. The social theories of Talcott Parsons. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1961. x + 363 pp. $7.50.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Bernard Suits*
Affiliation:
Purdue University

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Copyright © The Philosophy of Science Association 1964

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Parsons notes that this term “claims too much. What I contend is that an essential set of components are common to systems which, like personality and social systems, are adjacent in the hierarchial series. This is the problem … of the interpenetration between systemes” (356).