(1928) “‘Capitalism’ in Recent German Literature: Sombart and Weber,” The Journal of Political Economy 36, 641–61.
(1929) “‘Capitalism’ in Recent German Literature: Sombart and Weber – Concluded,” The Journal of Political Economy 37, 31–51.
(1934a), “Sociological Elements in Economic Thought,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 49, 414–53.
(1934b), “Society,” in: Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Edwin R.A. Seligman (ed.) (New York: Macmillan), vol. 14, 225–31; reprinted Charles Camic (ed.) (1991), Talcott Parsons – The Early Essays (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press), 109–21.
(1935a), “The Place of Ultimate Values in Sociological Theory,” International Journal of Ethics 45, 282–316.
(1935b), “H.M. Robertson on Max Weber and His School,” The Journal of Political Economy 35, 688–96.
(1937a), The Structure of Social Action: A Study in Social Theory With Special Reference to a Group of Recent European Writers (New York: McGraw Hill), 3rd Edition 1968 (New York: Free Press).
(1937b), “Remarks on Education and the Professions,” International Journal of Ethics 47, 365–69.
(1939), “The Professions and Social Structure,” Social Forces 17, 457–67.
(1940), “An Analytical Approach to the Theory of Social Stratification,” American Journal of Sociology 45, 841–62.
(1942a), “The Sociology of Modern Anti-Semitism,” in Isaque Graeber and Steuart Henderson Britt (eds), Jews in a Gentile World (New York: Macmillan), 101–
22; revised Talcott Parsons on National Socialism (1993), 131–52.
(1942b), “Max Weber and the Contemporary Political Crisis,” Review of Politics 4, 61–76, 155–71; reprinted Talcott Parsons on National Socialism (1993), 159–87.
(1942c), “Some Sociological Aspects of the Fascist Movements,” Social Forces 21, 138–47; reprinted Talcott Parsons on National Socialism (1993), 203–18.
(1942d), “Democracy and the Social Structure of Pre-Nazi Germany,” The Journal of Political and Legal Sociology 1, 96–114; reprinted Talcott Parsons on National Socialism (1993), 225–42.
(1942e), “Propaganda and Social Control,” Psychiatry 5, 551–72; reprinted Talcott Parsons on National Socialism (1993), 243–74.
(1942f), “Age and Sex in the Social Structure of the United States,” American Sociological Review 7, 604–16.
(1945a), “The Present Position and Prospects of Systematic Theory in Sociology,”
republished Essays in Sociological Theory, revised edition 1954 (Glencoe, IL:
The Free Press), 212–37.
(1945b), “Racial and Religious Differences as Factors in Group Tension,” in Lyman Bryson, Louis Finkelstein, Robert MacIver (eds), Approaches to National Unity (New York: Harper & Brothers), 182–99; reprinted Talcott Parsons on National Socialism (1993), 275–90.
(1945c), “The Problem of Controlled Institutional Change: An Essay in Applied Social Science,” Psychiatry 8, 79–101; reprinted Talcott Parsons on National Socialism (1993), 291–324.
(1946), “The Science Legislation and the Role of the Social Sciences,” American Sociological Review 11, 653–66.
(1946/7), “National Science Legislation,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 2, no.
9–10, 7–9, and 3, no. 1, 3–5.
(1947a), “Introduction,” in Max Weber, The Theory of Social and Economic Organization (New York: Oxford University Press), 3–86.
(1947b), “Note on the Science Foundation Bill in the 80th Congress,” American Sociological Review 12, 601–603.
(1947c), “Science Legislation and the Social Sciences,” Political Science Quarterly 62, 241–9.
(1947d), “Certain Primary Sources and Patterns of Aggression in the Social Structure of the Western World,” Psychiatry 10, 167–81; reprinted Talcott Parsons on National Socialism (1993), 325–47.
(1948), “The Position of Sociological Theory,” American Sociological Review 13, 156–64.
(1949a), Essays in Sociological Theory, Pure and Applied (Glencoe, IL: The Free Press); revised edition 1954.
(1949b), “Social Classes and Class Conflict in the Light of Recent Sociological Theory,” American Economic Review 39, 16–26.
(1950), “Psychoanalysis and the Social Structure,” The Psychoanalytic Quarterly 19, 371–84.
(1951a), The Social System (Glencoe, IL: The Free Press); 2nd Edition 1964 (New York: The Free Press).
(1951b), “Illness and the Role of the Physician: A Sociological Perspective,”
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 21, 452–60.
(1951c), with Edward Shils (eds), Toward a General Theory of Action: Theoretical Foundations for the Social Sciences (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press).
(1951d), with Edward Shils, “Values, Motives and the Systems of Action,” in:
Parsons and Shils (eds), Toward A General Theory of Action, 47–275.
(1952a), “The Superego and the Theory of Social Systems,” Psychiatry 15, 15–25;
republished Social Structure and Personality (1964), 17–33.
(1952b), with Renée Fox, “Illness, Therapy, and the Modern American Family,”
Journal of Social Issues 8, 31–44.
(1953a), “A Revised Analytical Approach to the Theory of Social Stratification,”
in Reinhard Bendix and Seymour M. Lipset (eds), Class, Status, and Power: A Reader in Stratification (Glencoe, IL: The Free Press), 92–128.
(1953b), “Some Comments on the State of the General Theory of Action,”
American Sociological Review 18, 618–31.
(1953c), with Robert F. Bales and Edward A. Shils, Working Papers in the Theory of Action (Glencoe, IL: The Free Press).
(1953d), with Robert F. Bales, “The Dimensions of Action Space,” in Working Papers in the Theory of Action, 63–109.
(1953e), with Robert Bales and Edward Shils, “Phase Movement in Relation to Motivation, Symbol Formation, and Role Structure,” in Working Papers in the Theory of Action, 163–269.
(1954), “The Father Symbol: An Appraisal in the Light of Psychoanalytic and Sociological Theory,” in Lyman Bryson, Louis Finkelstein, R.M. MacIver, and Richard McKeon (eds), Symbols and Values (New York: Harper & Brothers), 523–44; republished Social Structure and Personality (1964), 34–56.
(1955a), “McCarthyism and American Social Tension: A Sociologist’s View,”
Yale Review 44, 226–45; republished “Social Strains in America,” Structure and Process in Modern Societies (1960), 226–47, with postscript in Daniel Bell (ed.) (1963), The Radical Right (Garden City, NY: Doubleday), 209–38, reprinted Politics and Social Structure (1969), 157–84.
(1955b), with Robert F. Bales in collaboration with James Olds, Morris Zelditch Jr., and Philip E. Slater, Family, Socialization and Interaction Process (Glencoe, IL: The Free Press).
(1956), with Neil Smelser, Economy and Society: A Study in the Integration of Economic and Social Theory (Glencoe, IL: The Free Press).
(1957a), “The Distribution of Power in American Society,” World Politics 10, 123–43; republished Politics and Social Structure (1969), 185–203.
(1957b), “The Mental Hospital as a Type of Organization,” in Milton Greenblatt, Daniel J. Levinson, and Richard H. Williams (eds), The Patient and the Mental Hospital (New York: The Free Press), 108–29.
(1958a), “Authority, Legitimation, and Political Process,” in Carl J. Friedrich (ed.), Authority (Cambridge: Harvard University Press), 197–221; reprinted Structure and Process in Modern Societies (1960), 170–98.
(1958b), “The Definition of Health and Illness in the Light of American Values and Social Structure,” in E. Gartly Jaco (ed.), Patients, Physicians, and Illness:
A Sourcebook in Behavioral Science and Health (Glencoe, IL: The Free Press), 234–45; republished 3rd Edition (New York: The Free Press, 1979), 120–44.
(1958c), “Some Trends of Change in American Society: Their Bearing on Medical Education,” Journal of the American Medical Association, May 1958, 31–6.
(1958d), “Social Structure and the Development of Personality: Freud’s Contribution to the Integration of Psychology and Sociology,” Psychiatry 21, 321–40; republished Social Structure and Personality (1964), 78–111.
(1959a), “The Principle Structures of Community: A Sociological View,” in Carl J. Friedrich (ed.), Community (New York: The Liberal Arts Press), 152–79;
republished Structure and Process in Modern Societies (1960), 250–79.
(1959b), “An Approach to Psychological Theory in Terms of the Theory of Action,”
in Sigmund Koch (ed.), Psychology: A Study of a Science. Study I: Conceptual and Systematic. Volume 3: Formations of the Person and the Social Context (New York: McGraw Hill), 612–711.
(1959c), “Some Problems Confronting Sociology as a Profession,” American Sociological Review 24, 547–59.
(1959d), “Comment on ‘American Intellectuals’,” Daedalus 88, 493–95.
(1960a), Structure and Process in Modern Societies (New York: Free Press).
(1960b), “Some Principal Characteristics of Industrial Societies,” in Structure and Process in Modern Societies, 132–68; also Cyril E. Black (ed.) (1961), The Transformation of Russian Society: Aspects of Social Change since 1861 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press), 13–42.
(1960c), “Some Reflections on the Institutional Framework of Economic Development,” in Structure and Process in Modern Societies, 98–131.
(1960d), “Some Comments on the Pattern of Religious Organization in the United States,” in Structure and Process in Modern Societies, 295–321.
(1960e), “Pattern Variables Revisited,” American Sociological Review 25, 467–83.
(1960f),“Max Weber,” American Sociological Review 25, 750–52.
(1961a), “Point of View of the Author,” in: Max Black (ed.), The Social Theories of Talcott Parsons (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall), 311–63.
(1961b), “Polarization and the Problem of International Order,” Berkeley Journal of Sociology 6, 115–34; republished Quincy Wright, William E. Evan, and Morton Deutsch (eds) (1962), Preventing World War III: Some Proposals (New York: Simon & Schuster), 310–31.
(1961c), “Introduction,” in Herbert Spencer, The Study of Sociology (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press).
(1961d), “Order and Community in the International Social System,” in James N.
Rosenau (ed.), International Politics and Foreign Policy (New York: The Free Press), 120–29; republished Politics and Social Structure (1969), 292–310.
(1961e), “Christianity and Modern Industrial Society,” in Edward A. Tiryakian (ed.), Sociological Theory, Values, and Sociocultural Change: Essays in the Honor of Pitirim A. Sorokin (New York: The Free Press), 33–70.
(1961f), with Edward Shils, Caspar Naegele and Jesse Pitts (eds), Theories of Society: Foundations of Modern Sociological Theory, New York: The Free Press, four volumes.
(1961g), with Winston White, “The Link Between Character and Society,” in Seymour M. Lipset and Leo Lowenthal (eds), Culture and Social Character:
The Work of David Riesman Reviewed (New York: The Free Press), 89–135.
(1962) “Individual Autonomy and Social Pressure: An Answer to Dennis H.
Wrong,” Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Review 49, 70–79.
(1963a), “On the Concept of Political Power,” in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 107, 232–62; republished Sociological Theory and Modern Society (1967), 297–354, Politics and Social Structure (1969), 352–
(1963b), “On the Concept of Influence,” 404. Public Opinion Quarterly 27, 37–62, republished Politics and Social Structure, 405–30, with postscript 431–8.
(1963c), “Rejoinder to Bauer and Coleman,” Public Opinion Quarterly 27, 87–92.
(1964a), Social Structure and Personality (New York: Free Press).
(1964b), “Some Theoretical Considerations Bearing on the Field of Medical Sociology,” in Social Structure and Personality, 325–58.
(1964c), “Evolutionary Universals in Society,” American Sociological Review 29, 339–57; republished Sociological Theory and Modern Society (1967), 490–
(1964d), “Levels of Organization and the Mediation of Social Interaction,” 520.
Sociological Inquiry 34, 207–20; reprinted Herman Turk and Richard L.
Simpson (eds), Institutions and Social Exchange: The Sociologies of Talcott Parsons and George C. Homans (Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs Merrill), 23–35.
(1964e), “Some Reflections on the Place of Force in Social Process,” in Harry Eckstein (ed.), Internal War: Basic Problems and Approaches (New York:
Free Press of Glencoe), 33–70.
(1965a), “Unity and Diversity in the Modern Intellectual Disciplines: The Role of the Social Sciences,” Daedalus 94, 39–65; republished Sociological Theory and Modern Society (1967), 166–91.
(1965b), “Max Weber, 1864-1964,” American Sociological Review 30, 171–5.
(1965c), “Full Citizenship for the Negro American? A Sociological Problem,”
Daedalus 94, 1009–54, republished Parsons and Kenneth B. Clark (eds) (1966), The Negro American (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin), 709–54.
(1965d), “Cause and Effect in Sociology,” in Daniel Lerner (ed.), Cause and Effect: The Hayden Colloquium on Scientific Method and Concept (New York:
The Free Press), 51–64.
(1966a), Societies: Evolutionary and Comparative Perspectives (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall).
(1966b), “Introduction: Why ‘Freedom Now,’ Not Yesterday?,” in The Negro American, edited with Kenneth B. Clark (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin), xix-xxviii.
(1966c), “Die Bedeutung der Polarisierung für das Sozialsystem: Die Hautfarbe als Polarisierungsproblem,” in Alfons Silbermann (ed.), Militanter Humanismus.
Von den Aufgaben der modernen Soziologie (Frankfurt am Main: Fischer), 64–83.
(1967a), Sociological Theory and Modern Society (New York: The Free Press).
(1967b), “Evaluation and Objectivity in Social Science: An Interpretation of Max Weber’s Contribution,” in Sociological Theory and Modern Society, 79–101.
(1967c), “Some Comments on the Sociology of Karl Marx,” in Sociological Theory and Modern Society, 102–35.
(1967d), “The Nature of American Pluralism,” in Theodore R. Sizer (ed.), Religion and Public Education (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin), 249–61.
(1968a), “On the Concept of Value-Commitments,” Sociological Inquiry 38, 135–
60, republished Politics and Social Structure (1969), 439–72.
(1968b), “Christianity,” The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, vol. 2 (New York: Macmillan and Free Press), 425–57; republished Action Theory and the Human Condition (1978), 173–212.
(1968c), “Professions,” The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, vol. 12 (New York: Crowell Collier and Macmillan), 536–47.
(1968d), “Utilitarianism: Sociological Thought,” The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, vol. 16 (New York: Macmillan and Free Press), 229–36.
(1968e), “The Academic System: A Sociologist’s View,” The Public Interest 13, 173–97.
(1968f), “Order as a Sociological Problem,” in Paul G. Kuntz (ed.), The Concept of Order (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press), 373–84.
(1968g), with Gerald M. Platt, “Considerations on the American Academic System,” Minerva 6, 497–523.
(1969a), Politics and Social Structure (New York: The Free Press).
(1969b), “The Concept of Society,” in Politics and Social Structure, 5–33.
(1969c), “Theoretical Orientations on Modern Societies,” in Politics and Social Structure, 34–57.
(1969d), “Historical Interpretations,” in Politics and Social Structure, 59–63.
(1969e), “Part IV: Theory and the Polity,” in Politics and Social Structure, 311–16.
(1969f), “‘The Intellectual’: A Social Role Category,” in Philip Rieff (ed.), On Intellectuals (New York: Doubleday), 3–24.
(1970a), “Equality and Inequality in Modern Society, or Social Stratification Revisited,” Sociological Inquiry 40, 13–72.
(1970b), “On Building Social System Theory: A Personal History,” Daedalus 99, 826–81; republished Social Systems and the Evolution of Action Theory (1977), 22–76.
(1971a), The System of Modern Societies (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall).
(1971b), “Value-freedom and Objectivity,” in Otto Stammer (ed.), Max Weber and Sociology Today (New York: Harper & Row), 27–49.
(1971c), “Discussion on Value-freedom and Objectivity” in Stammer (ed.), Max Weber and Sociology Today, 78–82.
(1971d), “Belief, Unbelief, and Disbelief,” in Rocco Caporale and Antonio Grumelli (eds), The Culture of Unbelief (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press), 207–45.
(1971e), “Higher Education as a Theoretical Focus,” in Herman Turk and Richard L. Simpson (eds), Institutions and Social Exchange (Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill), 233–52.
(1972), “The Action Frame of Reference and the General Theory of Action Systems,” in Edwin P. Hollander and Raymond G. Hunt (eds), Classic Contributions to Social Psychology (New York: Oxford University Press), 168–76.
(1973a), “Culture and Social System Revisited,” in Louis Schneider and Charles Bonjean (eds), The Idea of Culture in the Social Sciences (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press), 33–46.
(1973b), “Durkheim on Religion Revisited: Another Look at The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life,” in Charles Y. Clock and Phillip E. Hammond (eds), Beyond the Classics: Essays in the Scientific Study of Religion (New York: Harper & Row), 156–80; republished Action Theory and the Human Condition (1978), 213–32.
(1973c), with Gerald M. Platt, with the collaboration of Neil J. Smelser, The American University (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press).
(1974a), “Epilogue: The University ‘Bundle’: A Study of the Balance Between Differentiation and Integration,” in Neil J. Smelser and Gabriel Almond (eds), Public Higher Education in California (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press), 275–99.
(1974b), “Comment on: “Current Folklore in the Criticisms of Parsonian Action Theory,” Sociological Inquiry 44, 55–8.
(1974c), “Religion in Postindustrial America: The Problem of Secularization,”
Social Research 41, 193–225; republished Action Theory and the Human Condition (1978), 300–330.
(1975a), “Some Theoretical Considerations on the Nature and Trends of Change of Ethnicity,” in Nathan Glazer and Daniel P. Moynihan (eds), Ethnicity: Theory and Experience (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press), 53–83.
(1975b), “Comment on ‘Parsons” Interpretation of Durkheim’ and on ‘Moral Freedom Through Understanding in Durkheim’,” American Sociological Review 40, 106–11.
(1975c), “Comment on De-Parsonizing Weber,” American Sociological Review 40, 666–70.
(1976), “Clarence Ayres’s Economics and Sociology,” in William Patton Culbertson and William Breit (eds), Science and Ceremony: The Institutional Economics of Clarence E. Ayres (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press), 175–9.
(1977a), Social Systems and the Evolution of Action Theory (New York: Free Press).
(1977b), The Evolution of Societies, edited and with an introduction by Jackson Toby (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall).
(1977c), with Dean Gerstein, “Two Cases of Social Deviance: Addiction to Heroin, Addiction to Power,” in Edward Sagarin (ed.), Deviance and Social Change (Beverly Hills, CA: Sage), 19–57.
(1977d), “Law as an Intellectual Stepchild,” Sociological Inquiry 47, 11–58.
(1978a), Action Theory and the Human Condition (New York: The Free Press).
(1978b), “Health and Disease: A Sociological and Action Perspective,” in Action Theory and the Human Condition, 66–81.
(1978c), “A Paradigm of the Human Condition,” in Action Theory and the Human Condition, 352–433.
(1979a), “Religious and Economic Symbolism in the Western World,” Sociological Inquiry 49, 1–48.
(1979b), “The Symbolic Environment of Modern Economics,” Social Research 46, 436–53.
(1979c), “On the Relation of the Theory of Action to Max Weber’s ‘Verstehende Soziologie’,” in Wolfgang Schluchter (ed.), Verhalten, Handeln und System:
Talcott Parsons’ Beitrag zur Entwicklung der Sozialwissenschaften (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp), 150–63.
(1980a), “Postscript ‘The Sociology of Modern Anti-Semitism’,” Contemporary Jewry 5, 31–8.
(1980b), “The Circumstances of My Encounter with Max Weber,” in Robert K. Merton and Mathilda White Riley (eds), Sociological Traditions from Generation to Generation (Norwood, NJ: Ablex), 37–43.
(1981), “Revisiting the Classics throughout a Long Career,” in Buford Rhea (ed.), The Future of Sociological Classics (London: Allen & Unwin), 183–
(1982), “Action, Symbols, and Cybernetic Control,” in Ino Rossi (ed.), Structural 94.
Sociology (New York: Columbia University Press), 49–65.
(1986), Aktor, Situation und normative Muster. Ein Essay zur Theorie des sozialen Handelns, edited and translated by Harald Wenzel (Frankfurt am Main:
Suhrkamp).
(1991), “The Integration of Economic and Sociological Theory, The Marshall Lectures,” Sociological Inquiry 61, 10–59.
(1993a), Talcott Parsons on National Socialism, edited and with an introduction by Uta Gerhardt (New York: Aldine de Gruyter).
(1993b), “Academic Freedom (1939),” in Talcott Parsons on National Socialism, 85–99.
(1993c),“Memorandum: The Development of Groups and Organizations Amenable to Use Against American Institutions and Foreign Policy and Possible Measures of Prevention,” in Talcott Parsons on National Socialism, 101–30.
(1993d), “Sociological Reflections on the United States in Relation to the European War,” in Talcott Parsons on National Socialism, 189–202.
(1998a), “The “Fragment” on Simmel (From Draft Chapter 18, Structure of Social Action): Georg Simmel and Ferdinand Toennies: Social Relationships and the Elements of Action,” American Sociologist 29, 21–30.
(1998b), “Simmel and the Methodological Problems of Formal Sociology,”
American Sociologist 29, 31–50.
(2007) American Society: A Theory of the Societal Community, edited and with an introduction by Guiseppe Sciortino (Boulder, CO: Paradigm).