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Consensus Structuralism - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Conformity is rewarded
      - Non-conformity is sanctioned
- - - - The political subsystem (political parties, trade unions)
      - The economic subsystem (industries)
  - - - The kinship subsystem (marriage and family)
      - The cultural subsystem (e.g. schools, churces)
- - - - What seems to be an individual act is actually part of a wider social picture
- - - - E.g. poverty may benefit the rich and cause problems for the poor
  - - - Dennis Wrong (1961) argued that functionalists give too much importance to the role of society in determining people's behaviour
  - - - Argue that the problems suffered by the WC, women and ethnic minorities haven't been adequately explained and justified by functionalism
- - - - Essential for society's stability
  - - - See this as harmful to women's rights