Sociology and the New Systems Theory: Toward a Theoretica...
Bailey, Kenneth D.![Sociology and the New Systems Theory: Toward a Theoretical Synthesis](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/289/28955713/CHSBZCOP0328955713.jpg)
This book provides current information about the many recent contributions of social systems theory. While some sociologists feel that the systems age ended with functionalism, in reality a number of recent developments have occurred within the field. The author makes these developments accessible to sociologists and other non-systems scholars, and begins a synthesis of the burgeoning systems field and mainstream sociological theory. The analy...