Functionalist Theory
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- Created on: 20-05-15 10:17
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- Functionalist Theory
- Structuralist theory (top down)
- Positivist, human behaviour is shaped by social facts
- Compare society to the human body (analogy) all the organs work together to bring good health
- Social order is dependent on 4 factors
- 1 Socialisation into value consensus
- Members of society learn norms through family
- Secondary agents e.g. education reinforce these values
- 2 Social Intergration
- People belonging to a community
- Media promote nationalism
- 3 Social Control
- Values need to be reinforced by agencies of control
- Informal agencies e.g. family and formal agencies e.g. justice system
- 4 Division of Labour
- Education allows skills that help find a specialist job
- 1 Socialisation into value consensus
- Sociologists? Parsons, Durkheim, Merton
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