Rationality in the Social Sciences

Presents of a collection of papers, written for the 1939-40 Schumpeter-Parsons seminar, on the conception of rationality in the social sciences

Offers commentaries by today's social scientists approaching the topic of rationality from a broad range of perspectives and disciplines

Highlights the correspondence between the principal figures of the faculty seminar

Autorentext

Helmut Staubmann is professor for social theory and cultural sociology and dean of the School of Political Science and Sociology at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He has authored and edited several books on action theory in the Parsonian tradition. Together with Victor M. Lidz he is editor of the book series Studies in the Theory of Action.

Victor M. Lidz was a student and later collaborator of the late Talcott Parsons who has published contributions to the theory of action developed by Parsons for 45 years. He has held faculty positions at the university of Chicago, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Drexel University College of Medicine (and predecessor institution) in the Department of Psychiatry from which he is now Professor emeritus.

Inhalt
Editorial Introduction.- Part I: Original Papers of the Schumpeter/Parsons Seminar.- Part II: Current Paper.- Part III: Letter Exchange on the Rationality Seminar.