Key Terms:

adaptation - a need of the social system; the social system meeting members' material needs through the economic sub-system
functions - role of a particular thing
goal attainment - a need of the social system; society needs to set goals and have resources to achieve them, through the political sub-system
integration - a need of the social system; different parts of the system must be integrated together to pursue shared goals, this is achieved through social institutions such as the media, religion and education
latency - a need of the social system; processes that maintain society over time, e.g. the kinship sub-system (family) perform pattern maintenance and tension management
socialisation - learning norms and values of your culture
social control - ways society gets us to obey shared norms
social order - cooperation of individuals to obey norms and values and work towards shared goals
system - an organised structure of interlinked parts
system needs - things that are necessary for the system to keep working
value consensus - shared values on what is important in society

	Created by Summer Pearce about 9 years ago

A-Level (Year 2) Sociology (2e) Functionalism) Note on Functionalism, created by Summer Pearce on 16/02/2017.