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Talcott Parsons
December 13, 1902 - May 8, 1979
Nationality: American
Category: Sociologist
Subcategory: American Sociologist

The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.

   

The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.

   

It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.

   

Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.

   

If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.

   

In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.

   

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.

   

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