overview

overview
1. noun
A brief summary, as of a book or a presentation.
2. verb
To engage in an overview; to provide a brief summary.

Gouldner, on the other hand, overviewed all of sociology as it exists in the Western world today, using Talcott Parsons as a "representative" example of its dominant mode of thought.


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