Examples of The Functionalist Perspective in the following topics:
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- The functionalist perspective of gender roles suggests that gender roles exist to maximize social efficiency.
- The functionalist perspective sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability.
- The functionalist perspective of gender inequality was most robustly articulated in the 1940s and 1950s, and largely developed by Talcott Parsons' model of the nuclear family.
- While gender roles, according to the functionalist perspective, are beneficial in that they contribute to stable social relations, many argue that gender roles are discriminatory and should not be upheld.
- While the structural-functionalist perspective argues that gender inequalities exist as a form of the division of labor, the photograph above clearly illustrates that women need not be restricted to certain activities.
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- According to the functionalist perspective, race and ethnicity are two of the various parts of a cohesive society.
- As noted sociologist Michael Omi observes, "The structural-functionalist framework generally stressed the unifying role of culture, and particularly American values, in regulating and resolving conflicts.
- Given this emphasis on equilibrium and harmony, the functionalist perspective easily allows for specific macro-analyses of more contentious power imbalances, such as race-related issues.
- It also allows for the micro-analyses that much of modern sociology is oriented around, such as identity formation and the socially constructed nature of race.
- Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of a functionalist approach to race
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- The functionalist perspective attempts to explain social institutions as collective means to meet individual and social needs.
- The functionalist perspective attempts to explain social institutions as collective means to meet individual and social needs.
- In the 1950s, Robert Merton elaborated the functionalist perspective by proposing a distinction between manifest and latent functions.
- For example, crime seems difficult to explain from the functionalist perspective; it seems to play little role in maintaining social stability.
- In the functionalist perspective, society and its institutions are the primary units of analysis.
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- In the functionalist model, Parsons argued that illness is a form of deviance that disturbs the social function of a society.
- This is because, from a functionalist perspective, a sick individual is not a productive member of society.
- In the functionalist model, Parsons argued that the best way to understand illness sociologically is to view it as a form of deviance that disturbs the social function of the society.
- Critics of Parsons and the functionalist perspective point to different flaws they see with his argument.
- Discuss the functionalist perspective on illness in society, specifically the role the sick play in a specific society and how that role affects others
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- Functionalists view the family unit as a construct that fulfills important functions and keeps society running smoothly.
- For functionalists, the family creates well-integrated members of society and teaches culture to the new members of society.
- For functionalists, the family creates well-integrated members of society and instills culture into the new members of society.
- For functionalists, the family creates well-integrated members of society and teaches culture to the new members of society.
- Explain the social functions of the family through the perspective of structural functionalism
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- A structural functionalist approach emphasizes social solidarity, divided into organic and mechanical typologies, and stability in social structures.
- Structural functionalists ask "How does any given social phenomenon contribute to social stability?"
- For the structural functionalist, deviance serves two primary roles in creating social stability.
- From a structural functionalist perspective, then, how does society change, particularly in regards to establishing norms and deviant behaviors?
- Deviance provides the key to understanding the disruption and re-calibration of society that occurs over time.
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- From a functionalist point of view, inequality plays a role in holding society together and encouraging efficiency.
- According to structural-functionalists, stratification and inequality are inevitable and beneficial to society.
- The layering is useful because it ensures that the best people are at the top and those who are less worthy are further down the pyramid, and therefore have less power and are given fewer rewards than the high quality people at the top.
- Moore in a paper published in 1945, is a central claim within the structural functionalist paradigm, and purports that the unequal distribution of rewards serves a purpose in society.
- Functionalists hold that the high pay and status granted to lawyers acts as incentive to motivate qualified people to accept these drawbacks.
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- According to functionalists, the socialization process is coercive, forcing us to accept to the values and norms of society.
- The Functionalist paradigm describes society as stable and describes all of the various mechanisms that maintain social stability.
- According to functionalists, the socialization process is coercive, forcing us to accept the values and norms of society.
- Socialization is important because it is the mechanism for transferring the accepted norms and values of society to the individuals within the system.
- Examine socialization in three ways - the functionalist perspective, and according to Merton and Parsons
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- A structural functionalist approach emphasizes social solidarity and stability in social structures.
- Structural functionalists ask: How does any given social phenomenon contribute to social stability?
- For the structural functionalist, deviance serves two primary roles in creating social stability.
- From a structural-functionalist perspective, then, how does society change, particularly in regards to establishing norms and deviant behaviors?
- Deviance provides the key to understanding the disruption and recalibration of society that occurs over time.
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- Social theorists think differently about global inequality based on their sociological perspective.
- Occupy Wall Street protesters approach inequality from a social justice perspective that holds that all Americans deserve equal life chances and have been denied them by market-oriented approaches to economic regulation (or lack thereof).
- Occupy Wall Street protesters approach inequality from a social justice perspective that holds that all Americans deserve equal life chances and have been denied them by market-oriented approaches to economic regulation (or lack thereof).
- Functionalists are likely to embrace market-oriented approaches to inequality, on the basis that a free market will result in prices that benefit the smooth-functioning and growth of economies.
- Differentiate between the positions on social inequality taken by functionalists, Marxists, modern liberalism, and social justice advocates