functionalism

• parsons

  • functional prerequisites
  • value consensus
  • social control
  • adaption, goal attainment, intergration, latency.
• durkheim

  • social solidarity
  • collective conscience
  • anomie: lack of norms + values.
• the new right

  • thatcherism
  • economic reconstructing: poor people forced to deprived areas
  • choice competition: marketisation + low benefits
• murray


  • blames single parents
• eval


  • social order, meets prerequisites, shared goals
  • ignores conflict theories