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帕森斯的功能主义在二十世纪中叶曾一统社会学天下,以至于美国社会学协会前主席戴维斯在一九五九年曾半开玩笑地说,功能主义分析与社会学就是一回事。然而,也正是在这一年,米尔斯以其振聋发聩的《社会学的想像力》发起了对帕森斯的挑战。经过二十世纪六十年代硝烟弥漫的猛烈攻击,帕森斯到七十年代被社会学界普遍抛在了一边。塞德曼(S.Seidman)回忆说,他二十世纪七十年代在大学学社会学时,老师就从未指定他读帕森斯的书,他当时所熟悉的,是古尔德纳在《西方社会学即将来临的危机》中对帕森斯的攻击。这么说来,社会学的帕森斯时代早已过去,如今我们是生活在众声喧哗的后现代了,谁还会有兴趣去鞭尸帕森斯呢?
Parsons’s functionalism dominated the world of sociology in the mid-twentieth century, so that former president Davis of the American Association of Sociological Societies half jokingly said in 1959 that functionalist analysis is the same as sociology . However, it was also during this year that Mills launched the challenge to Parsons with his delightful “sociological imagination.” Parsons was generally thrown aside by the sociology community in the seventies after a fiery, violent attack in the 1960s. S. Seidman recalls that when he studied sociology in college in the 1970s, the teacher never designated him to read Parsons’ book. What he knew at the time was Gouldner’s " Attack on Parsons in the Crisis in Western Sociology. In that case, the era of Parsons of sociology is long gone, and now we live in a loud, postmodern society. Who else is interested in whipping Corpus Parsons?