Download or read book Social Structure & Person written by Talcott Parsons and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Collection of essays which studies the theoretical problem of relationships between social structure and personality, and how these different relationships merit distinct treatment for particular purposes. Parsons concludes that in the larger picture, their interdependencies are so intimate that bringing them together in an interpretive synthesis is imperative if a balanced understanding of the complex as a whole is to be attained.