Lecture: Confrontations and Controversies in the Theory of Talcott Parsons

Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague, Programme of Developing Academic Fields - Interdisciplinary Social Sciences invite you to a lecture “Confrontations and Controversies in the Theory of Talcott Parsons“ presented by Uta Gerhardt (University of Heidelberg).

Uta Gerhardt is a German sociologist and professor emeritus at the University of Heidelberg. She studied sociology, philosophy and history at the universities of Frankfurt am Main and Berlin. In 1969, she obtained a Ph.D. at the University of Konstanz. The focus of her work is on medical sociology, structural-functionalist role theory, and general sociological theory. She also wrote a major biography of Talcott Parsons.