Natrually the early writings of Talcott Parsons show us well the conceptualisationprocess of his own sociology. There we can distinguish two main lines of social scientific thought, to which Parsons owes many things. The one is the positivistic tradition of social science staring from the utilitarianism, and the other is the historical one.
Between these two trends, Parsons finds an important common element, that is, an ethical element in social action. In this way, he has widend the concept of normative element in action scheme, getting over the exclusively rational type of noam.
On the other hand, considering the Hobbesian problem of order, Parsons thought it indispensadle that the normative ethical element should be common to all the members of society. Through this process criticizing the utilitarian economical thought, he could not, however, help leaving an interesting point of view taken up from Weber and Somdart. The mobern society as an objectified autonomous machine.
We expect that we could have made clear the reason of this Parsons' omission in his early wrtings.
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