Oral history interview with Talcott Parsons, 1967
- Name
- Parsons, Talcott, 1902-1979 (Interviewee)
- Grossner, Isabel S (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Talcott Parsons, 1967
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Talcott Parsons : oral history, 1967
- Abstract
- Initial involvement with Carnegie Corporation during establishment of Depart of Social Relations at Harvard University; 1944-1945; grants for Center for Behavioral Science; Ford Foundation grants; establishment of Russian Research Center, 1948; controversy surrounding Clyde Kluckhohn and Air Force consultantship; TOWARDS A GENERAL THEORY OF ACTION, 1951; grants for individual work from Carnegie an d Ford Foundation, 1952-1967; thoughts on the Social Science Research Council (SSRC); Harvard under James Bryant Conant and Paul Herman Buck; Carnegie and its grantmaking policies. Impressions of Clyde Kluckhohn, Paul Herman Buck, Samuel A. Stouffer, Charles Dollard.
- Collection Name
- Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
- Subjects
- Sociology--Study and teaching; Sociologists; Endowment of research; Parsons, Talcott, 1902-1979; Kluckhohn, Clyde, 1905-1960; Carnegie Corporation of New York; Harvard University. Department of Social Relations; Harvard University. Russian Research Center
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1967
- Physical Description
- sound files : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit); 47 pages
- Note (Biographical)
- Professor of Sociology, Harvard University.
- Note (Funding)
- Digital reproduction of audio funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Note
- Audio digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010.
- Interviewed by Isabel S. Grossner on March 22, 1967.
- Note (Copyright)
- Copyright by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1987.
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 7522610
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Carnegie Corporation Oral History Project [Staging]
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-yge8-1w46
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.