A Comparative Study of Parsons and Allamah Tabatabaii's Views about Family Management

The present paper seeks, through a comparative study, to investigate Parsons and Allamah Tabatabaii’s views about family management and answer the following question: what are the points of difference and points of similarity between Parsons and Allamah Tabatabaii’s views about family management? A library-based method is used for gathering data and conducting the research. This research contains an interdisciplinary approach to a discipline between ethics and sociology, on the one hand, and is considered a scientific- religious research, on the other. It, first, discusses the models of family management and then refers to Parsons and Allamah Tabatabaii’s views about family management.The research findings show that Allamah emphasizes on two things: differentiating between roles and reasoning, whereas Parsons refers to the differentiation between roles and to the principle of their incompatibility. Of course, there are five points of similarity and four points of difference between Parsons and Allamah’s views, which are referred to in this paper.