Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Oral history interview with Talcott Parsons, 1967.
Creator: | Parsons, Talcott, 1902-1979 | Project: | Carnegie Corporation project. (see all project interviews) | Phys. Desc. : | sound files : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit) Transcript 47 pages | Location: | Columbia Center for Oral History | Full CLIO record >> |
Biographical NoteProfessor of Sociology, Harvard University.
Scope and ContentsInitial 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.
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