functionalism
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FunctionalismBy: Aurrora Greening & Christina Watt
Callum helped I guess
Functionalism sets out to interpret society as a structure with interrelated parts.
It is a part of both Sociology and Anthropology. Functionalism is focused on the importance of everyone working together for the
betterment of the society. This form of society is comparable to the human body, all parts much function
collectively for the success of the whole, the same can be said about a clock, where individuals are cogs in the wheel who must all work together for the common function.
What is Functionalism?
Basics Of Funtionalism and Purpose of Institutions
Law, Crime, Institution, Education, Religion
All institutions provide a function that is needed for society to work.
– Examples: School, Hospital, Police Station, City Hall, etc.
Purpose of Instutions
Purpose of Instutions
Purpose of Crime
Purpose of Law
The way to allow social change when needed
Example: prohibition, people collectively going against current social norms in order to change society.
To enforce the social norms
- Example: Police, Judge, Prison, etc.
To deem some actions deviant
Purpose of Instutions
Purpose Of Education To socialize children
according to current social norms.
- Teaching everyone in society to pledge allegiance
To maintain social role- Trains the young to fulfill
roles To create division of labour - Sorts students into skill
groups
Purpose of Institutions
Purpose of Religion
Maintains social order. Discourages deviant
acts a.k.a. sins Gives source of
personal fulfillment, belonging, love, etc.
E. E. Evans-Pritchard
E.E. Evans-Pritchard
Studied at Oxford and the University of London
Studied the lives and cultures of African Societies.
However he failed to treat women as a whole within the functionalist society.
He ultimately became a humanist rather than a functionalist.
Sir Raymond Firth
Sir Raymond Firth
Attended and received his undergraduate degree at the London School of Economics
Did extensive field work in Tikopia
His greatest contribution was his distinction between social structure and social organizations.
Social organization has tended to be used loosely to refer to the sum total of activities performed in a given social context.
Social structure has usually been used for the social context itself, or more accurately for the set of social relations which link individuals in a society.
Distinction Between Social Structure and Social Organization
Lucy Mair
Lucy Mair
Attended the London School of Economics. Mair’s fieldwork was in Uganda Her studies focussed on social change and
public affairs Her most notable work was the contemporary
processes of Colonization.
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