PATTERN VARIABLES – TALCOTT PARSONS
Practice Question: Critically analyse Talcott Parson’s conception of Pattern Variables. (20 marks) (UPSC 2017) Approach: Introduction, Explain pattern variables in details, Discuss AGIL system, Criticism; Conclusion. INTRODUCTION Parsons was one of the most influential structural functionalists of the 1950s. As a functionalist, he was concerned with how elements of society were functional for …