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Functionalism - Coggle Diagram
Functionalism
Parsons: society as system
The parts of the social system
Norms
Status roles
Institutions
Sub-systems
The social system
The system needs: The AGIL schema
Adaptation
Goal attainment
Integration
Latency
Integration of the individual
Socialisation
Social control
Value consensus and social order
Types of society
Traditional society
Modern society
The organic analogy
System needs
Functions
System
Social change
Kinship institution loses functions as society develops
Structural differentiation
Moving equilibrium
Kinship institution many functions in traditional society
Durkheim and functionalism
Modern society
Rapid change
Traditional society
Social facts
Merton's internal critique of functionalism
Functional unity
Universal functionalism
Indispensability
Manifest versus latent functions
External critiques of functionalism
Conflict perspective criticisms
Action perspective criticisms
Logical criticisms
Teleology
Unfalsifiability
Postmodernist criticisms