diss (lesson 1)

• DAVID EMILE DURKHEIM


  - french sociologist

  
  

  - creator/ coined the structural functionalism
• STRUCTURAL FUNCTIONALISM


  - sociological theory

  society is composed of a system of interconnected parts that have their own particular functions
• FUNCTIONALISM


  shaped and guided by social structures or the pattern of social relationships between groups or individuals
• MACROSTRUCTURES


  - formed among groups or institutions

  
  

  - religion, education, traditions, and culture
• MICROSTRUCTURES


  among individuals or among groups that results in a individual interaction
• SOCIAL FUNCTIONS


  - effect of the social structures or their purpose

  
  

  - functionalism finds it difficult to explain; social change
• MANIFEST FUNCTION


  predicted,intended and recognized consequence of some element of society
• LATENT FUNCTION


  unintended outcomes of social structures
• MANIFEST DISFUNCTION


  predicted, expected, and knowable disruptions of a social structure
• LATENT DISFUNCTION


  unpredicted and unexpected disruption of social structures
• AUGUSTE COMTE


  - Law of Three Stages

  
  

  - society and man's cognitive progression from religious and abstract concepts to scientific perspective

  
  

  - precursor to structural functionalism

  
  

  - the social structures and of how humans are shaped by progressive thinking
• HERBERT SPENCER


  - first sociological functionalist

  
  

  - comparison of society to the human body
• TALCOTT PARSONS


  - identifies the different systems that he called system levels

  
  

  - cultural system, personality system, and biological system
• KINSLEY DAVID & WILBERT MOORE


  - functionalist theory of stratification or Davis-Moore hypothesis

  
  

  - social inequalities are necessary so that the society would function

  
  

  - social inequalities are even viewed desirable as the entire society benefits from them - from the poor, the middle class and the rich.
• ROBERT MERTON


  developed the concepts of manifest and latent functions and dysfunctions
• GABRIEL ALMOND & BINGHAM POWELL


  - applied structural functionalist theories in comparative politics

  
  

  - the need to understand the institutions through which political systems were allowed to function.