...and formally committed to the independence of culture. Parsons characterizes the "social system" as only one of three aspects of the structuring of a..."completely concrete system of social action," the other two being "the personality systems of the individual actors and the cultural system which is built into...

...Orientierungsleistungen und of a system of culturally structured and shared symbols. Thus conceived, a social system is only one of three aspects of the...concrete system of social action. The other two are the personaltiy systems of the individual actors and the cultural system which is built into their action."...