The Structure of Social Action

The Structure of Social Action is a 1937 book by sociologist Talcott Parsons.^[1]

The Structure of Social Action

Title page for The Structure of Social Action (1949)
Author	Talcott Parsons
Language	English
Subject	Sociology
Genre	Non-fiction
Publication date	1937

In 1998 the International Sociological Association listed the work as the ninth most important sociological book of the 20th century, behind Jürgen Habermas' The Theory of Communicative Action (1981) but ahead of Erving Goffman's The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1956).^[2]