He nursed Edna St. Vincent Millay during her penultimate illness and rumors abounded about their relationship, leading to a caricature of him as Tithonus Pidgeon in C. Wright Mills' roman à clef The Breadbasket.
He nursed Edna St. Vincent Millay during her penultimate illness and rumors abounded about their relationship, leading to a caricature of him as Tithonus Pidgeon in C. Wright Mills' roman à clef The Breadbasket. He preceded Davis and Moore in his development of the theory of role allocation in public education, which went hand in hand with his meritocracy theory of schools. This followed his reading of Max Weber, whom he popularized in America. For ten points, name this American sociologist and author of Social System and The Structure of Social Action.
He nursed Edna St. Vincent Millay during her penultimate illness and rumors abounded about their relationship, leading to a caricature of him as Tithonus Pidgeon in C. Wright Mills' roman à clef The Breadbasket.
Talcott Parsons