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When did Parsons serve as the secretary of the American Sociological Association?

  • 1949

  • 1955

  • 1960-1965

  • 1970

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Parsons served as the secretary of the American Sociological Association from 1960 to 1965. This was a time when the discipline was undergoing a period of growth and change, and Parsons was instrumental in shaping the direction of the field. He was a leading proponent of the structural functionalist approach to sociology, and his work helped to define the discipline's core concepts and theories.
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