![]() ![]() Even if a conflict occurs they are meant to contribute to social order and stability. This perspective views society as static and focuses on integration rather than conflict and separation. ![]() value agreement and harmony) and de-emphasis on conflict Thus society is just like a human body made up of different interconnected parts (organs) that function to keep the society (system) functioning. These parts or units are grouped to form a structure of society. Society is made up of various parts, sub-parts as well as individual units. whereas the latent function includes meeting new people or maybe finding a mate or spouse. E.g., a manifest function of education includes preparing for a career by getting good grades, graduating, and finding a good job, etc. Merton suggested that human behavior has both manifest and latent functions. Merton added concepts such as manifest and latent functions to functionalism theory. Therefore, all these aspects have a role in keeping society stable and maintain its social order. It means that to functionalist, each aspect of the society, either those defined as good or bad (such as deviance, crime, etc.), are essential for the society to continue. They also explain that rapid and sudden change can disturb the equilibrium of the society to which the social institutions restore the state of equilibrium.Īs the functionalist perspective stresses that each aspect of society is interdependent and contributes to society’s stability and functioning as a whole. Functionalism explains social change occurs as a result of population growth, increased technology, and contact with external society. Groups here mean institutions.įunctionalists believe that society is held together by social consensus upon which members of the society agree and they should work together to achieve (stability, order, and state of equilibrium) what is best for the society as a whole. ![]() Structural Functionalist also considers economy, religion, polity, education, marriage family, kinship as groups. A group could be a crowd of people in a movie theater, or the members of a family, corporations, factories, university systems, communities, etc. they focus on the study of groups rather than the individual. So, functionalism theory focuses on consensus, social order, and social stability than on change and on the structure and mandatory function of the parts that make up the whole.įor Structural functionalists, its parts, such as groups are the basic unit of analysis i.e. All these parts (such as institutions) function to keep society stable. Economics provides for the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services and religion provides moral guidance to members of society. ![]() Politics provides a means of governing the members of society. Education offers a way to transfer society’s skills, knowledge, and culture to its youth. each of the social institutions contributes important functions for society the family provides an environment for reproducing, nurturing, and socializing children. work together to keep the whole body system functioning.Į.g. It suggests that each interconnected, interdependent parts of the structure contribute to the functioning of the whole system (whole system here means the ‘ society‘) which is just like the human body where every part, such as the brain, heart, kidney, lungs, etc. ![]()
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