He collaborated on one work with the author of The Torment of Secrecy, and his description of the rights and responsibilities of sick people became known as the "sick role.
He collaborated on one work with the author of The Torment of Secrecy, and his description of the rights and responsibilities of sick people became known as the "sick role." One of his theories contrasts Ascription with Achievement and Diffuseness with Specificity, and he split societies into expressive and instrumental types.  This co-author with Gerald Platt of The American University characterized societies with his pattern variables.  In Economy and Society, he developed his AGIL paradigm, which claims that all societies need adaptation, goal-attainment, integration and latency.   His best known work introduces the concept of the unit-act, and he also wrote The Social System.  FTP, name this structural-functionalist sociologist, who wrote The Structure of Social Action.
He collaborated on one work with the author of The Torment of Secrecy, and his description of the rights and responsibilities of sick people became known as the "sick role.
Talcott {Parsons}