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Functionalism
- Key Features:
- adopt an organic analogy to
understanding society
- Human body- each organ must
work together to function
- society is based on a value consensus
(shred values)
- Value consensus= social
order and harmony
- society has basic needs that must
be met to survive
- adopt an organic analogy to
understanding society
- Strengths:
- Look at society as a whole
- identify the major functions of key
social institutions
- help to explain how social structures
affect human behaviour
- effective in explaining
social continuity
- Look at society as a whole
- Weaknesses:
- ignore conflict within society
- find it difficult to explain how conflict
can generate social change
- make assumptions about what
constitutes a value consensus
- ignore the possibility that the value
consensus perpetuates social inequalities
by sustaining the power dominant groups
- ignore conflict within society
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