Tom R. Burns

Tom R. Burns ( born 1937 in Arkansas) is an American- Swedish sociologist.

Life

Burns studied at the Universities of Stanford and Warsaw physics, economics and sociology. He was Doctorate 1969 in Stanford in sociology. Burns taught at various universities in the United States, Norway, Sweden, Portugal and the European University Institute in Florence. At the University of Uppsala, he taught as a professor of Sociology from 1982 until his retirement in 2002.

Burns developed in collaboration with other social scientists in a scientific network, a new variant of systems theory: the social rule system theory, which differs substantially by systematic combination of actor and system of systems theory Talcott Parsons and Niklas Luhmann.

Publications

• Sociologist ( 20th century)
• Sociologist ( 21st century)
• Americans
• Born in 1937
• Man