Critiques to Parsons’ Evolutionary Theory
• When he said “evolutionary theory,” it seems that the theory deal with social change.
• However, Parsons’ analysis of evolution does not look at process, rather it is an attempt to “order structural types and related them sequentially” (Parsons, 1966:111).
• It is comparative structural analysis, not really a study of the process of social change.
• Thus, he is structural-functionalist after all.