Culture & Functionalism
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- Culture - Functionalist Perspectives
- Emile Durkheim & Marcel Mauss
- Primitive Classification
- Culture only becomes possible once humans are able to distinguish between things and classify them.
- Humans have to develop a system for classifying things. Without this they cannot make sense of the world around them.
- Origin of classification systems
- The model on which classification is based on comes from the structure of society.
- Social structures are based on the divisions between social groups, people begin to classify the rest of the world in terms of the world.
- Example: Australian aboriginals were divided into two social groups, and because their society was divided into two groups, they divided everything else into two groups.
- The model on which classification is based on comes from the structure of society.
- Religion and classification
- Durkheim believed religion was the basis of collective conscience - the shared moral beliefs and values of a society.
- A specialised division of labour can encourage excessive individualism (egoism) or normlessness (anomie)
- People must conform to the culture of their society if they are to avoid the risk of punishment.
- Primitive Classification
- Emile Durkheim & Marcel Mauss
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