Parsons exemplifies neo-conservative affirmative attitudes toward modernity.

Evidence

Marx of course took the first path; Habermas cites various contemporary German neo-conservatives — Hans Freyer, Joachim Ritter et al. - as exemplars of Right Hegelianism, but a social theorist such as Parsons seems to be a more important example of this kind of ‘affirmative attitude toward social modernity’. — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 268