For Parsons, the _________________ process helped to ensure that an actor’s pursuit of his/her own interests also served the interests of the system as a whole.

Related MCQs

• Social actors engage in the process of mystification in order to do all of the following EXCEPT:
• The basic unit within Talcott Parsons’s social system is the:
• According to ethnomethodologists, social actors use ____________ to accomplish their everyday lives.
• Which of the following is the term that ethnomethodologists use to describe the ways in which social actors explain specific situations?
• _____________ consciousness entails the ability to describe our actions in words, whereas ___________ consciousness involves actions that the actors take for granted without being able to express what they are doing.
• Talcott Parsons is known as a(n):
• Which of the following is NOT one of Talcott Parsons’s functional imperatives?
• In Talcott Parsons’s work, the behavioral organism handles the ___________function.
• Which of the following is NOT one of Talcott Parsons’s action systems?
• Parsons argued that _____________ was the major binding force between various elements of the social world.