Summary of Parsons
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- Parsons 1902-1972
- Organic analogy
- Society and the body have basic needs- system needs
- These needs are met through functions- ensuring survival.
- Society and the body act as systems.
- System needs
- GOAL ATTAINMENT society has set goals and needs ways to achieve them.
- ADAPTATION The social system meets it's members' material needs through the economic sub-system.
- INTEGRATION Different aspects of society need to be integrated to pursuit shared goals.
- LATENCY Maintaining society over time.
- Social Order
- Achieved through a shared culture of central value system.
- All members must agree the norms and values.
- Value consensus
- Structural consensus theory
- Value consensus
- Top-down approach
- Changes in society
- Structural differentiation- where separate and specialised functions and institutions develop to meet the new needs of society.
- The moving equilibrium, where as aspects of society develop other aspects of society will develop alongside it to compensate the change.
- Integration of individuals
- Individuals need to be integrated into societal norms in order to meet the systems needs.
- Organic analogy
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