Reminiscences of Talcott Parsons : oral history, 1967.

Biographical Note

Professor of Sociology, Harvard University.

Scope and Contents

Initial involvement with Carnegie Corporation during establishment of Depart of Social Relations at Harvard University; 1944-1945; grants for Center for Behavioral Science; Ford Foundation grants; establishment of Russian Research Center, 1948; controversy surrounding Clyde Kluckhohn and Air Force consultantship; TOWARDS A GENERAL THEORY OF ACTION, 1951; grants for individual work from Carnegie and Ford Foundation, 1952-1967; thoughts on the Social Science Research Council (SSRC); Harvard under James Bryant Conant and Paul Herman Buck; Carnegie and its grantmaking policies. Impressions of Clyde Kluckhohn, Paul Herman Buck, Samuel A. Stouffer, Charles Dollard.

Subjects

• Carnegie Corporation of New York.
• Endowment of research.
• Grossner, Isabel S., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Harvard University. Department of Social Relations.
• Harvard University. Russian Research Center.
• Interviews.
• Kluckhohn, Clyde, 1905-1960.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Parsons, Talcott, 1902-1979--Interviews.
• Sociologists--Interviews.
• Sociology--Study and teaching.

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