ABSTRACT
Parsons is confused. His action programme is mixed up with his systems or structural-functional programme throughout his work. In the previous six chapters I have separated these programmes of Parsons from each other and presented each separately as coherent overall approaches to theorizing. The reader can by comparing the sources cited in chapters 3 to 8 see the extent to which these are intermingled in Parsons. It would have been possible to write six chapters of the form: Parsons is inconsistent here, and here, and here, and here. However, I felt it was better to go behind his muddle to the two types of programmes that run through his work.
