Originally Posted by
Tom OC
Regarding Parsons (forgetting Durkheim and Weber for now), isn't it true that a symbolic media of exchange, like making money or engaging in legitimate economic behavior, serves to connect components of the social action system? And, that socio-political justifications for this kind of legitimate behavior serve to create more generalized norms and values that move a society from reliance on traditions, customs, and folkways into a more modernized, organic solidarity form? I would agree that a crude application of Durkheim or Weber's ontology would be disasterous. The real ju-ju is where the money is. Can I talk Parsons here, as it applies to say, modernization or nation building?
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