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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Talcott Parsons's Sociology of National Socialism -- The Collection of Texts -- 1. Nazis Destroy Learning, Challenge Religion -- 2. Academic Freedom (1939) -- 3. Memorandum: The Development of Groups and Organizations Amenable to Use Against American Institutions and Foreign Policy and Possible Measures of Prevention -- 4. The Sociology of Modern Anti-Semitism -- 5. New Dark Ages Seen If Nazis Should Win -- 6. Max Weber and the Contemporary Political Crisis -- 7. Sociological Reflections on the United States in Relation to the European War -- 8. Some Sociological Aspects of the Fascist Movements -- 9. National Socialism and the German People -- 10. Democracy and Social Structure in Pre-Nazi Germany -- 11. Propaganda and Social Control -- 12. Racial and Religious Differences as Factors in Group Tensions -- 13. The Problem of Controlled Institutional Change* An Essay in Applied Social Science -- 14. Certain Primary Sources and Patterns of Aggression in the Social Structure of the Western World -- Index

ABSTRACTOrganized in three parts, this paper I. summarizes Parsons's analysis of fascism and National Socialism written during the 1940s; II. places his work into the context of earlier and later theories of fascism; and III. suggests how Parsons's later theoretical work may aid our under standing of National Socialism.