functionalist theory
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- Created on: 29-09-20 07:31
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- functionalism
- structuralist approach, opposite to Marxism (conflict theory)
- consensus theory
- argued that society was a collection of different agencies of socialisation relying on one another
- traditionalist ideology
- usually linked to conservative party
- value consensus- society agrees on values
- social solidarity- sense of being part of a wider society
- collective conscience- shared idea of norms and values
- achieved via socialization and formal + informal social control
- organic analogy- one institution fails to fulfil function, others suffer
- institution- interconnected, interrelated
- positivist research methods
- parsons and Durkheim
- parsons- importance of family in socialization- traditional mother and father
- durkheim- if one is not integrated into society or feels no social solidarity they experience anomie and may may become deviant.
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