Functionalism
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- Created on: 19-09-20 13:39
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- Functionalism
- Structural and consensus theory
- Looks at how society shapes the individual through socialisation
- Based on value consensus and agreed norms and values
- Macro theory: looking at society as a whole
- Emile Derkheim
- One of the founding fathers of sociology
- He believes agreed norms and values create social solidarity
- He used the 'Organic Analogy' to describe society
- Social institutions work together like the body to keep society running
- 'Inter-dependent' society
- Social institutions work together like the body to keep society running
- When socialisation is inadequate it creates a state of anomie
- Crime and deviance
- The family is primary socialisation
- The ideal family is the nuclear family
- Rose tinted view of society
- Ignores inequality in all institutions
- Institutional racism and abusive households.
- Irrelevant in todays society
- Too Deterministic
- Treats humans as robots and doesn't take into account the expectancy of human nature
- Doesn't focus on individuals, just society
- Ignores inequality in all institutions
- Structural and consensus theory
- Sofiya Chrystan
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