analysis. After all, he emphasized, each sociologist is concerned with the interpretation of phenomena in terms of their interconnections with societies as going concerns (Davis, 1959:760). Davis' view was in response to the early and mounting criticisms being leveled at functionalism, in general, and its Parsonian variant, in particular. More recently, Jeffrey Alexander (1985:7-8) has made an argument similar to Davis', although the old structural functionalism has been resurrected as neofunctionalism. For Alexander as for Davis before
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