Functionalism mindmap
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- Emile Durkhirm: FUNCTIONALISM
- Believed that society is made of
- collective conscience
- a shared set of norms and values between member of society
- social solidarity
- people feel a sense of belonging to their society
- these result in societies which are ordered and stable
- collective conscience
- Functionalism
- believe society is based on a consensus (agreement)
- assumption that society has basic needs that need to be met for it to survive
- Socialisation
- informal
- family
- primary socialisation
- family
- formal
- legal system
- secondary socialisation
- legal system
- informal
- Social order
- people need to know what is expected of them
- for a smooth running society
- requires cooperation and social solidarity
- social unity
- people need to know what is expected of them
- shared norms and values being passed down
- Socialisation
- Forms of social control and socialisation
- education
- social control
- detention, exclusions
- to prepare children for work
- informal
- socialisation
- respect people
- be quiet when someone else is speaking ect.
- basic rules of society
- interactions with others
- respect people
- social control
- Family
- socialisation
- praise for good things for good things
- teaches that you will be rewarded for good deeds e.g work promotions
- teaching them to listen,read and write
- reading books,story telling
- praise for good things for good things
- social control
- discipline
- punishments
- naughty corner
- teaches them to not do it again
- discipline
- socialisation
- education
- The Organic Analogy
- Different parts of a society act as certain organs within one organic body
- depend on eachother
- act together
- society is a system and all parts of it work together to work
- different organs are different institutions of society
- Created by Herbert Spencer
- Different parts of a society act as certain organs within one organic body
- Evaluation of functionalism
- strengths
- effective in showing how different parts of society work together to meet society's needs
- highlights some of the positive functions that parts of society perform
- critisims
- fails to explain conflict,especially between different religions,ethnic groups and beliefs of powerful groups that tend to dominate in society
- not everyone may agree with the shared values that functionalists see as important
- rose tinted glass approach
- strengths
- Believed that society is made of
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