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This webpage provides access to notes from excerpts of Parsons’s An Outline of the Social System and Merton’s Social Theory and Social Structure. 

Lecture and Study Outlines for Parsons, and Davis and Moore

http://socserv2.mcmaster.ca/soc/courses/soc2r3/sf/parsons.htm

http://socserv2.mcmaster.ca/soc/courses/soc2r3/sf/d-m.htm

Useful outlines of Parsons’s theory of structural functionalism, and Davis and Moore’s functionalist understanding of social stratification.  It also provides examples that could prove helpful when discussing these theories.

The Robert Merton Resource Page

http://www.faculty.rsu.edu/~felwell/Theorists/Merton/

Maintained by Frank Elwell, this site contains a bibliography and selections from the theorist’s works.

Robert Merton’s Papers

http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/merton/list.html

Collected at the University of Pennsylvania’s Garfield Library, this site contains links to many of Merton’s most cited works.

Against the Current

http://www.project-syndicate.org/contributor/77

Dahrendorf’s monthly commentary on contemporary social issues posted on the Project Syndicate website.

Niklas Luhmann

http://www.spacetime-publishing.de/observart/pages/on_luhmann.htm

This website include links to various works written by Luhmann and commentary.

Autopoietic Theory and Social Systems

http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigois/auto/AT&Soc.html