Functionalist perspective
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- Created on: 20-04-19 15:17
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- Functionalist perspective
- structural, macro theory, consensus
- Emile Durkhiem
- organic analogy
- both human body and society have interelated and interdependent parts
- system
- system needs
- functions
- both human body and society have interelated and interdependent parts
- value consensus
- reinforced through education, media etc
- social solidarity
- intergrates individuals, sense of belonging
- social control
- willing to conform to norms and values of society
- positive sanctions reward conformity, negative punish deviance
- willing to conform to norms and values of society
- socialisation
- teaches individuals to want to do what society needs them to
- organic analogy
- Talcott Parsons
- The social system
- subsustems
- institutions, roles and norms
- subsustems
- functional prerequisties
- Goal attainment
- society sets goals and allocates resources
- political sub system
- society sets goals and allocates resources
- adaptation
- meets members material needs
- economic subsystem
- meets members material needs
- intergration
- parts of society must be intergrated to achieve shared goals
- cultural and community sub system
- parts of society must be intergrated to achieve shared goals
- latency
- society needs to be maintained over time
- kinship sus system
- society needs to be maintained over time
- Goal attainment
- traditional v modern family
- ascription- achieved
- particularism- universalism
- collectivist- individualist
- particularism- universalism
- structural differentiation
- moving equilibrium
- ascription- achieved
- The social system
- evaluation
- internal
- Robert merton
- indispensability
- there are functional alternatives- other insitiutuions can do the job
- functional unity
- functional autonomy- independence from eachother
- universal functionism
- functional for some, disfunctional for others
- indispensability
- Robert merton
- external
- conflict groups
- society isn't harmonious
- marxists
- action perspetives
- determinism
- reification
- F- see society as a thing above humans AP- individuals have choice
- postmoderists
- ignores diversity and instability, no longer a meta narrative
- conflict groups
- internal
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