Victor Lidz

Biographic Data

ID195386
NAMEVictor Lidz
GIVEN NAMESVictor
FAMILY NAMELidz
SIGNATURELIDZ V
AFFILIATIONSDrexel University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS41
TOTAL CITATIONS19
AUTHOR COUNT40
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1968
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX3

  • The differentiation of culture and the complexities of understanding

    Open AccessVictor LidzARTICLEThesis Eleven2025References: 6

    The concept of culture initially gained prominence in American social science through the diffuse conception of anthropologists for whom culture was everything not biological or psychological in human conduct. Thus, "culture" included all aspects of social relationships and institutions as well as such practices as tool-making. In the 1950s, Talcott Parsons and others proposed a sharp analytical distinction between cultural and social systems, th…

  • Politics and the Academic Social Scientist; The Record of Talcott Parsons

    Open AccessVictor LidzARTICLEThe American Sociologist2021Cited by: 1References: 18

    The decline of interest among sociologists in the works of Talcott Parsons over the last several decades has been driven in substantial respects by a belief that he was personally conservative in his political views and that his theoretical formulations were rigidly tied to a conservative view of social order. The present paper reviews Parsons’ major political involvements through the course of his career from his student days through the last de…

  • Afterword: A Functional Analysis of the Crisis in American Society, 2020

    Open AccessVictor LidzARTICLEThe American Sociologist2021

    In 2020, American society experienced a number of crises. They involved raced relations precipitated by the Black Lives Matter movement, the Covid 19 pandemic with its huge loss of life and rates of illness, the economic recession that accompanied the pandemic and efforts to control it, and the tensions of the national political campaign, followed by the refusal of President Trump to acknowledge his defeat. Each of these crises led to cleavages i…

  • Parsons and Politics—Introductory Remarks

    Open AccessVictor Lidz, Helmut StaubmannARTICLEThe American Sociologist2021

  • Kapitalismus bei Max Weberâ zur Rekonstruktion eines fast vergessenen Themas by Talcott Parsons (review)

    Victor Lidz, Helmut StaubmannARTICLEMax Weber Studies2020

    98 Max Weber Studies© Max Weber Studies 2020. to a sudden halt by 1975 with the collapse of the Democratic consensus .34 This was a peculiarly American development that arrested the progress of a historically European social democratic order travelling from an originally Idealist conception of the state in the British and German 1830s to its ultimate Keynesian destination.35 What replaced it is a materialist conception of the state constituted of…

  • Rationality in the Social Sciences

    Open AccessHelmut Staubmann, Victor LidzBOOKRationality in the Social Sciences2018

  • An Approach to the Analysis of the Role of Rationality in Social Action

    Open AccessTalcott Parsons, Helmut Staubmann et al.CHAPTERRationality in the Social Sciences2018

  • Rationality in the Social Sciences: The Schumpeter-Parsons Seminar 1939-40 and Current Perspectives

    Helmut Staubmann, Victor LidzBOOKRationality in the Social Sciences2017

  • Talcott Parsons

    Open AccessVictor LidzOTHERThe Wiley‐Blackwell Companion to…2011

    This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Early Life and Studies Political Values and Interests The Department of Sociology and The Structure of Social Action After the Structure of Social Action Toward a General Theory of Action and The Social System The Emergence of the Four Function Paradigm The Marshall Lectures and Economy and Society Family and Socialization American Society The Polity, Power, and Symbolic Media of Interchange The…

  • The Functional Theory of Religion

    Open AccessVictor LidzOTHERThe New Blackwell Companion to…2010

    This chapter contains sections titled: Talcott Parsons Robert N. Bellah Conclusion Bibliography

  • Actor, Situation and Normative Pattern: An Essay in the Theory of Social Action

    Talcott Parsons, Victor Lidz et al.BOOKActor, situation and normative…2010

    Written in 1939, this volume represents the first systematic revision of Parson's theory of action following the publication of The Structure of Social Action. It presents the distinctions among cognitive, affective, and moral dimensions of action systems that later were incorporated in The Social System. It also presents Parson's first formulations in functional theory

  • Socialization to class, ethnicity, and race in the New Haven area during the 1950s: Sociological remembrances

    Open AccessVictor LidzARTICLEEthnography2010

    ■ I was raised in the New Haven suburb of Hamden and attended the town's public schools during the 1950s. This article discusses the differences of class, ethnicity, and race as I encountered them in my neighborhood and schools and the understandings of these differences that I developed. At the time, the region centered on an industrial city, and its class and status order revolved largely around the rankings of occupational roles in an industri…

  • Heroic Action and Its Discontents: Safe Horizon’s Response to 9/11

    Open AccessRichard C Fox, Renee C Fox et al.ARTICLESociety2009References: 3

  • Talcott Parsons on full citizenship for African Americans: Retrospective interpretation and evaluation

    Victor LidzARTICLECitizenship Studies2009Cited by: 3References: 1

    In this essay in the Thinking Citizenship Series, Lidz evaluates the contributions of Talcott Parsons for thinking about citizenship and race relations in twentieth century America

  • Parsons, Talcott (1902–1979)

    Open AccessVictor LidzOTHERThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of…2007

    Talcott Parsons was the preeminent sociological theorist of his generation. He developed a “general theory of action” that still serves as a comprehensive framework for understanding human social relationships and behavior. First adumbrated in articles published in the late 1920s, the theory was elaborated to a high level of analytic complexity in books and essays published over the next 50 years. Several works, including The Structure of Social …

  • Influence et solidarité, définir un fondement théorique à la sociologie

    Victor LidzARTICLESociologie et sociétés2002Cited by: 2

    Pendant les vingt dernières années de sa vie, Talcott Parsons a soutenu que l'objet d'étude essentiel de la sociologie devait être l'analyse de l'intégration sociale. S'inspirant pour une bonne part du modèle durkheimien de la solidarité, Parsons a conçu cette intégration sociale en termes dynamiques comme la capacité d'un groupe, d'une association ou d'une communauté à préserver sa cohésion lorsqu'ils se trouvent confrontés à des situations de d…

  • Convergence as Method in Theory Construction

    Victor Lidz, Victor M Lidz et al.CHAPTERTalcott Parsons2000

  • The Case for Support Services in Substance Abuse Treatment

    Open AccessJerome J Platt, Mindy Widman et al.ARTICLEAmerican Behavioral Scientist1998Cited by: 1References: 41

    Comprehensive services, including employment/vocational interventions, family therapy, medical care, and case management, have been shown by the literature to be critical elements of programs that provide effective treatment for substance abusers. Despite clear research findings, clients are often unable to obtain needed adjunctive services at their clinics. When services are not provided on site, clients typically are not effectively placed for …

  • The sense of identity in Jewish-Christian families

    Open AccessVictor LidzARTICLEQualitative Sociology1991Cited by: 2References: 5

  • The American Value System: A Commentary on Talcott Parsons's Perspective and Understanding

    Open AccessVictor LidzARTICLETheory Culture & Society1989Cited by: 3References: 11

  • Talcott Parsons and the Capitalist Nation-State: Political Sociology as a Strategic Vocation

    Victor Lidz, William Buxton et al.ARTICLESocial Forces1989

    authors stand in the debates. However the text is not sufliciently comprehensive to be a textbook for an undergraduate course in industrial sociology. Wider debates and changes in industrial relations are largely ignored, as are the significant contributions of feminist research on the labour process. Nevertheless the book deserves a significant place on reading lists for being up to date on the debates it does cover and especially its coverage o…

  • The Nationalization of the Social Sciences

    Roger L Geiger, Samuel Ζ Klausner et al.REVIEWThe American Historical Review1988

    This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas

  • The Nationalization of the Social Sciences

    Russell R Dynes, Samuel Ζ Klausner et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1987

  • The Nationalization of the Social Sciences

    Howard Brick, Samuel Ζ Klausner et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1987

    Journal Article The Nationalization of the Social Sciences. Ed. by Samuel Z. Klausner and Victor M. Lidz. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986. xiv + 296 pp. $34.95.) Get access Howard Brick Howard Brick University of Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 2, September 1987, Pages 554–555, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900123 Published: 01 Septembe…

  • Sociology

    Open AccessVictor LidzARTICLEThe Annals of the American…1984