...space) at time A to this same system's position at time B. Social System "A social system consists /of/ a plurality of individual actors interacting with...other, is defined and mediated in terms of a system M! of culturally structured and shared symbols. TTJModel "Models /are/ fictitious structures that are...

...actors insofar as its interactional pattern is part of an action system. As Parsons puts it: (Actors) are motivated in terms of a tendency to the "optimization of gratification," whose relation to their situations ... is defined and mediated in terms of a system of culturally structured...

...relationships" (1951:51, emphasis added), and only after saying "Reduced to the simplest possible terms ... a social system consists in a plurality of individual actors interacting with each other," does he add "actors who are motivated . . . and whose relation to their situations ... is mediated...

...the interaction between them within the overall system of social action. The actors' "relationship to their situations, including each other, is defined and mediated in terms of culturally structured and shared symbols."11 In the Parsonian mode, Neil Smelser holds that every social...

...interest for sociological analysis. Parsons (1964) best articulated this frame of reference by saying that a social system consists in a plurality of individual...including each other, is defined and mediated in terms of culturally structured and shared symbols, (pp. 5-6) Of major importance is the notion of the optimization...

...cultural symbols. More pointedly and in Parsons' words: Reduced to the simplest possible terms, then, a social system consists in a plurality of individual...other, is defined and mediated in terms of a system of structured and shared symbols.3 It is clear that Parsons assumes homogeneity in the social system and...

...chronologically in order that the flavour of the historical development of the concept might be sampled: ... a social system consists in a plurality of individual...actors who are motivated in terms of a tendency to the 'optimisation of gratification' and whose relation to their situations, including each other, is identified...

...system." lt is suggested that "reduced to the simplest possible terms, then, a social system consist of a plurality of individual actors interacting with...optimization of gratification and whose relation to their situation, including each other, is defined and mediated in terms of a system of culturally structured...

...soziale Ebene von den beiden anderen reguliert wird: „Reduced to the simplest possible terms, then, a social system consists in a plurality of individual...including each other, is defined and mediated in terms stitution von Objekten durch Prozesse (vgl. Sandbothe 2003: 15), welche sich durch die bereits erwähnten...

...bedeutungsvolles Handeln über diese drei Konstanten. „Reduced to the simplest possible terms, then, a social System consists in a plurality of individual...relation to their situations, including each other, is defmed and mediated in terms of a System of culturally structured and shared Symbols." (Parsons 1951,...