Rationality in the Social Sciences The Schumpeter-Parsons Seminar 1939-40 and Current Perspectives /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Staubmann, Helmut (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Lidz, Victor (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Economic sociology.; Economic history.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Social sciences-Philosophy.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.; Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.; History of Economic Thought/Methodology.; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.; Social Theory.

This volume presents for the first time a collection of historically important papers written on the concept of rationality in the social sciences. In 1939-40, the famed Austrian economist Joseph A. Schumpeter and the famous sociologist Talcott Parsons convened a faculty seminar at Harvard Universit...

Table of Contents:

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