Twice in the Road," among several others, in two sets of African-American folktales.  
One social scientist with this last name controversially advocated trial marriages in her early work The Family, and collected the tale of "Playing Dead Twice in the Road," among several others, in two sets of African-American folktales.  That social scientist with this last name conducted fieldwork among the Zapotecs that resulted in Mitla: Town of the Souls.  Another social scientist with this last name analyzed concepts that he termed "status-role bundles," and included self-  collectivity and ascription-achievement in his set of pattern (*) variables. That sociologist with this surname taught Niklas  Luhmann and championed systems theory in his work The Social System.  For 10 points, give this last name shared by Ruth  Benedict's teacher Elsie Clews, and by a man who discussed his AGIL paradigm in The Structure of Social Action.
One social scientist with this last name controversially advocated trial marriages in her early work The Family, and collected the tale of "Playing Dead
Parsons [Talcott or Elsie Worthington Clews; accept Clews until “status-role bundles”]