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	Talcott Parsons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Parsons was an advocate of "grand theory," an attempt to integrate all the social sciences into an overarching theoretical framework.
		Parsons' late work focused on a new theoretical synthesis around four functions common (he claimed) to all systems of action, from the behavioral to the cultural, and a set of symbolic media that enable communication across them.
		Parsons wrote President Dwight Eisenhower's bon mot that freedom means the freedom to fail as well as to succeed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talcott_Parsons (840 words)

	Parsons, Kansas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Parsons is a city located in Labette County, Kansas, in the southeast section of Kansas between Erie, Kansas and Oswego, Kansas along Highway 400 near Big Hill Lake and Neosho State Lake and Park.
		Parsons is also home to the Parsons State Hospital and Training Center, which has been in operation since 1903 when it was opened as the Kansas State Hospital for Epileptics.
		Parsons was the birthplace of actress Zazu Pitts and jazz musician Buck Clayton aka Wilbur Dorsey Clayton and was the home town of singer Clancy Hayes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Parsons,_Kansas (640 words)

	Gram Parsons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Gram Parsons (November 5, 1946-September 19, 1973), was born Cecil Ingram Connor III in Winter Haven, Florida to a wealthy family of fruit growers with extensive properties both there and Waycross, Georgia, where Parsons was raised.
		During the 1970's Parsons' efforts to blur the line between country music and rock and roll was a key influence on many bands such as The Byrds, The Eagles, and the Rolling Stones.
		The remainder of 1970 was largely wasted by Parsons, and his penchant for cocaine resulted in the abandoning of sessions for what was to have been a solo record, and Gram returned to hanging out with the Stones, first in London and later France, during the recording of Exile on Main Street.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/g/gr/gram_parsons.html (799 words)

	Parsons Corporation
		Parsons is a leader in many diverse markets such as infrastructure, transportation, water, telecommunications, aviation, commercial, environmental, planning, industrial manufacturing, education, healthcare, life sciences and homeland security.
		Parsons received this ranking 4 of the past 5 years and finished as one of the highest ranked firms in any industry at #11, our highest overall ranking ever.
		Parsons Chairman and CEO, Jim McNulty, recently provided an interview with "The Wall Street Transcript", describing the Parsons' growth and expectations for the future.
	www.parsons.com (178 words)

	Parsons, KS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Parsons is located in an area of flat plains and rolling hills in northern Labette, [LB], County.
		Parsons is a leader in economic development in southeast Kansas and has a strong infrastructure with a diverse labor force.
		Parsons is a "Tree City" and the Parsons Arboretum reflects the local love of trees.
	www.parsonsks.com (230 words)

	Parsons - Biographical Sketch - Peter Hamilton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Parsons was born in 1902 into a religious family in which ascetic Protestantism was the moral base of life: his father was a Congregational minister in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and active in the social reform movement known as the Social Gospel movement.
		Parsons was, by his own admission, fascinated by 'institutional' economics, which sought to present economic processes in terms of their effects on the wider society.
		Parsons now appeared to be at the pinnacle of his profession: the appearance of SS and TGTA at about the same time underlining the ambitious cast of his sociological work, and confirming the intellectual status which had been acknowledged in 1949 when he was elected President of the American Sociological Association.
	www2.pfeiffer.edu /~lridener/DSS/Parsons/parsbio1.html (8207 words)

	Talcott Parsons -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Parsons is also well known for his idea that every group or society tends to fulfill four "functional imperatives." The first of these is adaptation, adaptation to the physical and social environment.
		Parsons wrote President (United States general who supervised the invasion of Normandy and the defeat of Nazi Germany; 34th President of the United States (1890-1961)) Dwight Eisenhower's bon mot that freedom means the freedom to fail as well as to succeed.
		Parsons had a seminal influence and early mentorship over (Click link for more info and facts about Niklas Luhmann) Niklas Luhmann, pre-eminent German sociologist, originator of (Click link for more info and facts about systems theory) systems theory.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/ta/talcott_parsons.htm (610 words)

	Lewis Parsons
		Parsons' first action as provisional governor was to reinstate all Alabama laws that were in force prior to January 11, 1861, with the exception of those regarding slavery.
		Parsons' term as provisional governor ended with the inauguration of Robert M. Patton on December 13, 1865.
		Parsons was then chosen to represent Alabama in the US Senate but was refused his seat by the Republican party.
	www.archives.state.al.us /govs_list/g_parson.html (390 words)

	CMT.com : Gram Parsons : Biography
		Parsons only spent one semester at Harvard and, while he was there, he spent more time playing music than attending classes.
		By the spring of 1968, Parsons had become a member of the Byrds and he was largely responsible for the group's shift towards country music with their album Sweetheart of the Rodeo.
		Parsons and Hillman enlisted pedal steel guitarist "Sneaky" Pete Kleinow and bassist Chris Ethridge to complete the band's lineup and recorded their debut album with a series of session drummers.
	www.cmt.com /artists/az/parsons_gram/bio.jhtml (1230 words)

	SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY
		In this short chapter, Parsons expresses his concern for what appears to be the complete divorce between the empirically-minded and the theoretically minded in which each does their type of research while degrading the work of the other.
		Parsons defines illness as a deviant behavior because, as a sick person, whether mentally or physically, one is not able to perform the functions or obligations to society.
		Parsons noted that the critical feature of policy decisions is the fact that they commit the organization to a whole to carry out their implications.
	ssr1.uchicago.edu /PRELIMS/Theory/parsons.html (7941 words)

	Talcott Parsons - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Talcott Parsons (December 13,1902, Colorado Springs, USA - May 8, 1979, Munich, Germany) was the best-known sociologist in the United States, and one of the best-known in the world for many years.
		His early work (The Structure of Social Action) reviewed the output of his great predecessors, especially Weber, Pareto, and Durkheim, and attempted to derive from them a single "action theory" based on the assumptions that human action is voluntary, intentional, and symbolic.
		Later he ranged over an astonishing range of fields, from medical sociology (where he develeoped the concept of the sick role) to psychoanalysis (he underwent full training as a lay analyst) to anthropology to small group dynamics (working extensively with Freed Bales), to race relations to economics and education.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Talcott_Parsons (611 words)

	Parsons Growth of Capabilities
		Parsons is a leader in providing vehicle inspection, emissions compliance testing, and transactional data management services to state agencies and international clients.
		Parsons has earned international praise for addressing some of the most urgent global issues of our time: safely detecting and eliminating unexploded ordnance; designing, constructing, and operating chemical weapon neutralization facilities; destroying legacy strategic weapon platforms; and reconstructing post-conflict facilities and infrastructure.
		Parsons provides a broad spectrum of management, planning, design-build, and construction management services for water quality and supply, wastewater, and recycled water systems and facilities, as well as services for developing and upgrading port facilities and municipal buildings.
	www.parsons.com /about (782 words)

	Richard Parsons balances the executive life with public service - Dec. 5, 2001
		From there, Parsons moved into the private sector, first becoming a managing partner at the New York law firm Patterson, Belknap, Webb and Tyler, and then taking on the posts of chairman and CEO at Dime Bancorp, which he is credited with helping to rescue during the savings and loan crisis.
		Parsons' appointment Wednesday "increases the opportunity for talented African-American executives to be considered for the top-rung of corporate America," said Carl Brooks, president of the Executive Leadership Council, a nonprofit organization for African-American senior executives.
		A native of Brooklyn and Queens, Parsons is married to Laura Bush.
	money.cnn.com /2001/12/05/ceos/parsons_profile (594 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: PARSONS'S BRIGADE
		Because the force had been organized under Colonel Parsons, served under him in 1863, and was again under him at the end of the war, it was generally known as Parsons's Brigade.
		While Parsons was in Louisiana with part of the brigade, Colonel Carter remained in command of the rest in Arkansas.
		Parsons held field command in this unsuccessful attempt to cripple the federal fleet, and in the midst of battle General Green was killed by enemy artillery fire.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/PP/qkp1.html (1298 words)

	Elsie Clews Parsons, The Journal of a Feminist
		Born November 27, 1875, in New York City, Elsie Clews Parsons was the eldest of three children and the only daughter of Henry Clews, the son of a Staffordshire potter who had emigrated to the U.S. and founded a New York bank, and Lucy Madison Worthington, a descendent of President James Madison.
		In it, Parsons put forth a feminist argument that the admonitions upon women to serve as mothers and wives proved women's fitness to social and political equality with men.
		Parsons' later ethnographic studies, the result of tireless research in the American Southwest from the early 1910s until her death in 1941, include Pueblo Indian Religion (1939) and Tewa Tales (1926).
	www.library.csi.cuny.edu /dept/history/lavender/parsons.html (672 words)

	PlanetPapers - Talcott Parsons
		Parsons was bread into a well-to-do family and was given a strong educational foundation as a child.
		Parsons was academically pushed by his father, who was the first in the family to attend college.
		Parsons was still interested in the relationship between economics and sociology, and he began to notice that they had complex links.
	www.planetpapers.com /Assets/35.php (2184 words)

	BW Online \| May 19, 2003 \| Can Dick Parsons Rescue AOL Time Warner?
		Parsons retreated to his apartment in Manhattan's Tribeca neighborhood on the weekend of Dec. 1 to ponder a course of action.
		Parsons still might have emerged as the next chief, but his head could just as easily be the next one on Case's chopping block.
		Parsons has decorated the label of his Il Palazzone wine with a mock Parsons family crest and is thinking of adding this motto: "We drink all we can and we sell the rest." Parsons will drink his share of wine no matter what.
	www.businessweek.com /magazine/content/03_20/b3833001_mz001.htm (4442 words)

	Gram Parsons and the Byrds, 1968
		Between the departure of Parsons and the loss of their name, the rump Sub Band had little choice but to disband, only weeks before the long-delayed release of their LP in April of '68.
		Parsons was quite taken with their hosts, and privately spoke to them about the tour of South Africa scheduled for July.
		Parsons had planned a large wedding -- a Hank Williams-style media event -- and commissioned a $1,000 wedding dress from Nudie's Rodeo Tailors.
	ebni.com /byrds/memgrp3.html (1365 words)

	Windfalls of War - The Center for Public Integrity
		Parsons is no stranger to the Middle East or to the oil and gas industry.
		R.J. Zlatoper, a director at Parsons, is the former commander-in-chief of the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet.
		Parsons was originally issued a task order of $89 million for work in Iraq, which has been reduced by $9 million as the plan was refined.
	www.publicintegrity.org /wow/bio.aspx?act=pro&ddlC=44 (1251 words)

	Parsons says most Time Warner lines to boost profit in '04 - Jan. 6, 2004
		Parsons, speaking at the Smith Barney Entertainment, Media and Telecommunications Conference in Phoenix, said the company's operating income should increase in all of its business lines, with the exception of filmed entertainment.
		However, Parsons noted that the company's Warner Brothers division should have a solid year in 2004, with high hopes in particular for the third Harry Potter film, "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban," as well as "Catwoman," starring Halle Berry.
		Parsons also pledged that the company's AOL division, which has suffered from a downturn in online advertising and slowing subscriber growth, would perform better in 2004.
	money.cnn.com /2004/01/06/technology/parsons (425 words)

	Parsons Chain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Trawlex is the name for the Parsons Chain range of chain and chain fittings for commercial fishing applications.
		Parsons Chain Company are proud of their established reputation for high quality, reliable chain, and allied products.
		Parsons mining products have a worldwide reputation for quality and reliability, offering customers the most technically advanced chain available for today's mining applications.
	www.parsonschain.co.uk (252 words)

	Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris, 1970-1972
		Parsons and his new wife went to check out Harris at a tiny club called Clyde's in D.C. Only three other people were there to see her, and her repertoire was mostly folk music with only a hint of country.
		Parsons, Harris, Tashian and the three Presley musicians formed the core of the band on GP (Reprise, 1973), though several other musicians also appear, including post-Parsons Flying Burrito Brothers Al Perkins, Byron Berline and Alan Munde.
		The album featured six Parsons tunes: "Still Feeling Blue," "A Song for You," "She" (co-written with Chris Ethridge), "The New Soft Shoe," "How Much I've Lied" (co-written with David Rivkin, who was miscredited as "Pam Rifkin"), and "Big Mouth Blues." The covers were eclectic.
	ebni.com /byrds/memgrp4.html (2424 words)

	David Parsons Biography
		The New Zealand concert, Parsons recalls, was probably in 1965, just before the Beatles/sitar explosion, and barely attended at all—“the hall was half empty, just the local Indians and me.” Parsons had heard that Indian drummers, like Shankar’s tabla player Alla Rakha, were great, but he had never seen or heard a sitar before.
		Parsons likens his early records to the alap, the long, slow introduction of an Indian raga performance, where the musician will gradually unfold the notes of the raga scale, exploring the emotional hues of the various notes and phrases.
		David Parsons was no more a trained musicologist than he was a composer, but again, his instincts and his ears served him well.
	www.blacksun.com /Biographies/Parsons.htm (2640 words)

	Dizzy Rambler Online - Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Parsons came from a family of wealthy Southerners with a weakness for alcohol and a history of mental instability.
		Gram Parsons was born Cecil Ingram Connor on November 5, 1946, in Winter Haven, Florida, although his parents were at that time residents of Waycross, Georgia.
		In September 1971, Chris Hillman persuaded a reluctant Gram Parsons to go see then unknown Emmylou Harris play at a club called Clydes in Washington D.C., where she was doing a gig 3 nights a week.
	www.dizzyrambler.com /legends/GParsons/parsons_bio.html (2424 words)

	Union County Obituaries - PARSONS
		Parsons was born on April 2, 1893, at Elgin, the daughter of John and Clara (Childers) Rhodes.
		Dell Parsons became quite ill the latter part of last week, his condition being preceived (sic) by friends who noted his actions to be unusual.
		Parsons except that he was a resident of this community for 32 years, and followed several lines of occupation, the last being that of a miner.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/or/county/union1/parsonsobits.htm (568 words)

	Napster, Gnutella and Josef Stalin? \| Tech News on ZDNet
		But while vilifying them as "immoral and illegal," Parsons also conceded that the revolution started by Shawn Fanning and his Napster program badly scooped the traditional recording industry to a huge market potential unprecedented since songs were recorded and sold on the open market, he told a gathering of music industry executives Monday.
		Parsons is predicting, however, the first should start showing up by the end of this year.
		Parsons also dismissed a finding by Jupiter Communications announced last week that Napster users are more likely to buy music after downloading an MP3, survey findings that essentially said Napster is helping, not hurting, the same record companies.
	news.zdnet.com /2100-9595_22-502676.html?legacy=zdnn (644 words)

	Parsons Field/Friedman Diamond
		Parsons Field is 2/10 of a mile on the right.
		Parsons Field is ahead, one-tenth of a mile on the right.
		In 1972, NU added turf to Parsons Field, and the baseball diamond had to be moved to its present location in the southern corner of the field.
	gonu.com /facilities/parsons.html (771 words)

	Parsons School of Design
		Parsons offers a wide range of financial aid programs to eligible students, including school-supported scholarships and grants, government and private grants, and various loan programs.
		Parsons students further enrich their education through the mobility program at other international art and design colleges all over the world.
		Parsons Admissions provides information sessions at 10am and 2pm on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, and tours of the campus Monday through Friday at 11am and 4pm.
	admissions.parsons.edu /BFAFAQ.html (736 words)

	Parsons in Ireland 1590-1850 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Parsons in Army in 1600's Records of the Army indicate a number of Parsons served in the Army in Ireland and some remained in Ireland.
		Parsons in County Mayo 1790-1900 Some records of Parsons families in County Mayo, Ireland, found by Neil Franklin in his search for his grandmother, Mary Ann Parsons.
		For Link to Parsons Family Heritage Site which is primarily concerned with the descendants of Cornet Joseph Parsons, who emigrated from England to USA in 1635.
	members.aol.com /irep (530 words)

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