战后美国社会学的主要理论家塔尔科特·帕森斯(1902—1979年),首创了一种叫做行为理论的新的理论体系,用来考察现代人类、文化、社会及其发展。这个理论将马克斯·韦伯和埃米尔·涂尔干研究大型现代社会的比较社会学方法与学习理论、人类学功能主义和西格蒙德·弗洛伊德的心理动力学连结在一起。这个前所未有的理论综合就是行为理论的核心。在其后期,帕 Talcott Parsons (1902-1979), the leading theorist of post-war American sociology, pioneered a new theoretical system called Behavioral Theory to examine the modern human, cultural, social and developmental aspects. This theory links Max Weber and Emil Durkheim’s comparative sociological approach to large-scale modern society with learning theory, anthropological functionalism and Sigmund Freud’s psychodynamic dynamics. This unprecedented theory synthesis is the core of behavioral theory. In its later days, Pa