Funct. - Social life can be achieved through consensus and a collective conscience consisting of common beliefs and sentiments
Durkheim
1 of 5
Funct. - Society had 4 basic functional prerequisites that must be solved for society to survive: adaption, goal attainment, integration, latency. Change is gradual (structural differentiation) - society develops kinship loses functions.
Parsons
2 of 5
NR - one parent families put children at a disadvantage
Dennis and Erdos
3 of 5
NR - boys who grow up without father lack role model = lack self control. 'Underclass' - longterm unemployed - responsible for problems in society.
Murray
4 of 5
Criticises 3 key assumptions of Parsons: indespensability - untested assumption, functional unity - some parts of society HAVE functional autonomy, universal functionalism - some parts of society ARE dysfunctional.
Merton
5 of 5
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Card 2
Front
Funct. - Society had 4 basic functional prerequisites that must be solved for society to survive: adaption, goal attainment, integration, latency. Change is gradual (structural differentiation) - society develops kinship loses functions.
Back
Parsons
Card 3
Front
NR - one parent families put children at a disadvantage
Back
Card 4
Front
NR - boys who grow up without father lack role model = lack self control. 'Underclass' - longterm unemployed - responsible for problems in society.
Back
Card 5
Front
Criticises 3 key assumptions of Parsons: indespensability - untested assumption, functional unity - some parts of society HAVE functional autonomy, universal functionalism - some parts of society ARE dysfunctional.
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