Functionalism

• What do they believe about society?

  Built and works like a human body

  mainted by interrelated parts

  has certain prerequisites
• Name the functional prerequisites


  Food

  care of young

  new generation socialisation
• How is social system order and stability maintained?


  Social institutions meet functional prerequisites
• How is Functionalism a consensus theory?


  society functions from a broad consensus based on norms and values.
• What is the consensus approach?


  society based on shared norms and values creating social order and solidarity
• Critics on functionalism


  Marxist- mainstream social values are values of elite groups

  Deterministic- human behaviour programmed precisley by social instituions.

  Social stability occurs becaue of a lack of consensus
• What level of analysis do functionalist have on society?


  Macro
• What happens if a crisis occurs within interrelated and interdependant parts?

  Deviance

  must adapt which highlights social order and consensus existing