Question

This thinker analyzed the pursuance of “transcendental ends” in an essay about the “Place of Ultimate Values” in a certain theory. A book by this thinker named a rectangle representing the title concept along axes of “derivations” and “residues” after an Italian sociologist he criticized. This thinker defined five dichotomies, such as “affectivity vs. (15[1])affective neutrality,” (15[1])that he termed “pattern variables.” (15[1])This thinker (15[1])developed a four-part hierarchy of systemic necessities including (*) integration, latency, (-5[1])and adaptation. A book (10[1])by this thinker (10[1])claims that the “evolution of scientific theory” provides (-5[1])the answer to its opening question of “Who now reads Spencer?” “Sanctioned deviance” forms the basis of the sick role (10[1])devised by (10[1])this sociologist, (10[1])who also formulated the AGIL (10[1])paradigm. (10[2])For 10 points, (10[1])name this sociologist who wrote The Structure of Social Action. ■END■ (10[2]0[7])

ANSWER: Talcott Parsons (The first line refers to “The Place of Ultimate Values in Sociological Theory”; the second line refers to Parsons’s critique of Vilfredo Pareto.)
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