1. Introduction: The Scope and Significance of Talcott Parsons Studies; Part I: Methodology and Philosophy of the Social Sciences; 2. Backstage with the Parsons circle: Charisma, Dialogue, and Dissent in the Formation of a Theory School; 3. Interpreting and Critiquing Talcott Parsons's Human Condition Paradigm; 4. The Theory of Action and the Analysis of Culture; 5. The "Cognitive Complex" and Globalization: Conclusions for the Future of Higher Education and Research; 6. Parsons/Habermas, Scientific Sociology/Critical Theory, and a Natural Law Theory of Morality; 7. The Analytical Realism of Talcott Parsons: A Sketch of the Theorist as Essay Writer; Part II: Illness, Personality, and Psychoanalysis; 8.
Double-Deviance: The Case of Drug Offenders; 9. Towards a Codification of Parsons's Theory of Psychopathology; 10. Durkheim and Freud: Parsons and the Diaglogue between Sociology and Psychoanalysis; 11. The Sociological Reception of Psychoanalysis within Parsons's "The Superego and the Theory of Social Systems"; Part III: Economics and Politics; 12. Parsons and Sociological Economics; 13. Parsons, the Symbolic Media, and Weber's View of Power and Stratification; 14. Norms, Interests, and Desirable Futures: Exploring Contemporary Political Upheavals through the Voluntaristic Theory of Action; 15. Parsons on the International System and Global Society; 16.
The Problem of "Race" in Talcott Parsons's Account of the Citizenship Complex; 17. Parsons and the "Problem" of Ethnicity and Race in Modern Society; Part IV: Parsons and His Students; 18. A Revolutionary Science and its Carriers: On Talcott Parsons, Robert N. Bellah, and Teacher-Pupil Chains in Scholarly Fields; 19. Talcott Parsons and Harold Garfinkel: The Development of Culture as Interaction; 20. Talcott Parsons and Clifford Geertz: Modernization, Functionalism, and Interpretive Social Science; 21. Niklas Luhmann and Talcott Parsons; 22. Talcott Parsons and Robert K.
Merton: A Bibliometric Assessment of their Intellectual Impact; Part V: Parsons's Influence in Various Countries and World Regions; 23. Talcott Parsons and the Tradition of Max Weber: Influence on German-Speaking Sociology; 24. Evolutionary Universals in Czechoslovak Society: Talcott Parsons, the Prague Spring, and Structures of Interest; 25. Talcott Parsons in Brazil; 26. Talcott Parsons and Italian Sociology: A Complex and (Perhaps) Surprising Story.