functionalism

SOCIAL ORDER: how people behave in society.whats classified as right and wrong.needed for society to function properly .social order maintained with consensus

SOCIALISATION: individuals learn culture of society in order to participate and fit into society

SOCIAL INTERGRATION: movement of minority groups(e.g:ethnic minorities) of society into mainstream of society.They gain full access to opportunities/rights/service available to members of mainstream

SOCIAL SOLIDARITY:when values set which bring together certain social groups.evreyone is in one accord.due to agreement most likely. 

NORMS:rules of social behaviour

VALUES:beliefs and ideas we consider to be important

• Durkheim says individuals need organs to function to live.Organs dependant as they have specific functions that makes body work.Therefore,character of society same.Institutions of society performs functions to maintain social system 
• society has police for problems-Just like organisms fight disease

• doesn't used to describe different parts of society.eg:brain is politics and family is heart.looks at whole of society and makes it easier to understand sociologically and shows visually how it all works together like society
• whole of society looked at .Its a macro level structural theory.doesn't just look at parts
• socialisation determining behaviour looked at
• culture structuring society looked at
• society whole with different parts looked at

• functionalism emphasizes consensus.violence not explained
• society doesn't have a life  of its own.dependant of people who make it up
• ignores that people have free choice.assumes we all accept consensus
• functionalists believe power equally distributed.Marxists say functionalists ignore that some groups have more power than others.They can impose NORMS AND VALUES down on other groups
• socialisation viewed as something that never fails.child abuse/drugs wouldn't be a problem!