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This 5 page paper focuses on the theories of this famous sociologist. Systems theory is fully examined and the subsystems of adaption, goal attainment, integration and pattern maintenance are each detailed. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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and making sense of why things happen when they do. Systems theory, which attempts to put the world in some sort of logical order, seeing society as a system much
like the solar system or the biological system, is something on which Talcott Parsons relies. Talcott Parsons was one of the most influential social theorists of his
time (Stern & Barley, 1996). Among other things, Parsons argued that an adequate organizational theory must have three focal points, the first of which should be the "adaptation of an
organization to the situation in which it must operate" (1956 as quoted in Stern et al., 1996, p. 146). Parsons explained that the second focus should be on the
mechanisms related to implementation as well as on something called operative goal attainment (1996). Finally, the third component was the analysis of "mechanisms by which the organization is integrated with
other organizations and other types of collectivities in the total social system" (1956 as quoted in Stern et al., 1996, p. 146). Parsons excludes the examination of instrumental
relations between organizations and their surroundings and rather, urged organizational theorists to examine compatibility of institutional patterns in which organizations operate with those of other organizations and social units, and
then to society as a whole (Stern et al., 1996). Parsons above all believed that organizational theorists should look at the role of organizations within a larger sociocultural perspective
(1996). In fact, one of Parsons agendas was to embrace the "social systems" perspective (1996). Talcott Parsons, above all, used the concept of the system as perhaps the most
important aspect in the examination of society. Talcott Parsons (1995) defines systems as being both a complex of interdependencies between parts, components, and processes which involve other defined relationships
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