Structural Functionalist

Structural functionalism is a macro level approach to study sociology (Browning, 2015). Structural functionalists believe social consensus is what holds society together; social consensus being a condition in which most members of the society agree on what would be good for everyone. Structural functionalists view society as a web of social structures, each structure being functional to fulfill it’s own needs, but dependent on all other structures for survival (Vago, 2012).

How one defines and sees the world may be different than how the person across the room view of the world. The greater term is Socialization which is, “how people learn to fit in and function in a society through the association of others.” (Larkin, 2016) There are essentially three ways to view the world sociologically; structural functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic internationalism. The perspective of Structural Functionalism stood out the most to me, of how I view the world, there are various factors that lead to that perspective, and real world events.

Wholesome health and operative medical care are essential for the maintaining a high level of functionality in a society. Public health and medical care in America are based on structural functionalism its categorized positions and functions. According to the American Public Health Association, their main mission is dedicated to “the fulfillment of society’s interest in assuring the conditions in which people can be healthy.” On the UC Berkeley website titled “What is Public Health?”, they reveal that, their organizational framework encompasses “both activities undertaken within the formal structure of the government and the associated efforts of private and voluntary organizations and individuals.” Public health has the responsibility of guaranteeing people that all health services are needed for the protection of the public’s well-being and it be made available and accessible to everyone in every social class.

Hello, Brittany!!! I enjoy reading your post this week. I like how you explained the structural functional paradigms would be the structure and you made it esaier to understand. I loved your example about the eyes would be the structure and sight would be its function, we all need our sight. I to used the example about the education system. The Stuructural Functional Paradigm believe that each structure needs a type of of function. The Stuructural Functional plays a key role in the function of our society we live in. Once agin you have done a great job on your post this week. I wish you luck in the remaining time we have left in this class!!

Functionalism views society as the stability and assimilation of a range of forces that function within it. While society is a separate entity with a life of its own, there are individual elements contributing to that stability. Functionalism as a sociological theory emphasizes assimilation rather than the dissociation of society. Therefore, the society is seen as a whole that is compromised of parts which give one another their identity and their function. The part, whether that is education, such as a school, or sports, such as a football team, operates in relation to the other parts, and cannot be entirely understood in isolation from the other parts. All the parts are interrelated, and when there is a disturbance in any one of the

The functionalist point of view addresses the elements of society, both the function and the dysfunction prevalent in America. This implies that the HIV/AIDS disease is a dysfunction. In the same relationship that the privileged require a lower class to keep up their up their monetary prosperity, so does the operating of a society need dysfunction to keep up its existing role in American society. Despite the fact that the HIV infection does not orchestrate on its own, there are reliable factors set up that cause the infection to disease to socially affect minorities gay people, and impoverished communities uncovering the hidden job of two theoretical social perspectives of the American culture. This functionalist theory creates great conflict

Structuralism and functionalism investigate the human mind and use the mind as the subject of every study. They are also both are concerned with the conscious self. While they share some similarities, they also show some variation. Structuralism focuses on “revealing the most basic structures or components of the mind” (Zimbardo, 2006). Functionalism, on the other hand, focuses on mental life and behavior according to how a person interacts, or functions, in their environment.

Functionalism is the philosophy of science to which Behaviourism belongs too. According to Farrell, p.g. 364 "For functionalists, mental states had to be understood in terms of the functions that they performed, and these functions were a matter of allowing an organism to survive in its environment." Behaviourism was founded upon this philosophy and focused on observable behaviour. This paper will examine how behaviourism was able to stand up to the strict philosophy of science of functionalism and the reasons it did not prevent the fall of behaviourism.

a material account, but we can see that we still cannot identify material account independently of the soul, because even though human beings are constituted from other than flesh and bones, if they possess soul, then their material account does not matter. For these reasons, I can conclude that functionalism cannot be adequate to clarify the relation between soul and body, too. Burnyeat also thinks that functionalism cannot be adequate, because Aristotle has some points which contradict with functionalism. For instance, as I mentioned above, functionalism provide psychological explanation holistically with the material account. Even though form has a primary role, it still presupposes material necessity, because given soul needs a body. However,

As a resent graduate of sociology I am presenting the need to protect Lake Champlain West Bay, Grand Isle water quality, tourism capital, and maintain property taxes. The study would conclude in a stormwater system being put in place along both East and West Lake Shore Drive. Not approving this project will prove to be economically negative by lower tourism, lower property value, and increasing property taxes. There are a number of other negative effects like the environment and ecosystem (also mentioned in the presentation) but the focus is on the economic effect because the research is being done focuses on functionalist paradigm.

The Structural Functionalist view marriage as essential to society and its wellbeing. According to the Functionalists marriage is universal in its fulfillment of six needs of society: Economic production, Socialization of children, Care of the sick and aged, Recreation, Sexual control, and Reproduction.

I think my value reflects the theory I have indicated in from my previous blog response because in the discussions, “Functionalists examine how sports contributes to the development of individuals, believing that sport teaches youth basic values and desirable characters such as team work, discipline, hard work, accepting authority, which help us get along in society, in the world.” (Buchanan 2017). In relation to the response, if it is something that I am passionate about, then I would continuously work with it to become a better productive person. For instance, I have failed many volley ball games but I accepted it by increasing effort to get the good results wanted, having the team look down on me, dependently.

The functionalist perspective is a macro analytical perspective that looks at the picture as a whole, focusing on the processes by which health institutions, health care workers carry out their daily work and how people overcome the illness and disease (Little, 2014, Anderson and Taylor, 2001). In this sense, functionalism see society as the body, made up of different integrated social structures which have to work together as the different parts of the body (Rigney, 2001: 17). Functionalists view illness as a "deviance" causes physical and mental dysfunction and view sick-person as a non-productive member of the society and therefore should be examined by medical professions.

The literary theory of Structuralism attempts to explain the connections between concepts, images, and people. Particularly, the French Structuralists utilize the concept of binary comparisons in order to explain how everything relates to each other. This theory argues that people comprehend the world around them by the understanding the differences between objects or ideas and other objects or ideas, e.g. understanding the dark because it is not light. Children learn the concept of opposites so that they can describe things; they discover the difference between big and small before they understand the notions themselves. Therefore, by using the literary theory of French Structuralism, readers can establish the binary differences between the two sets of lovers in Much Ado about Nothing, explaining how the use of contrasting characters reveals the complexity of love, and comments on society’s conventions in Shakespeare’s day.

An example that demonstrates that architecture based on functionalist concepts can be creative, sensitive, but still efficient, economically viable and standardized is the Sarah Network headed by architect Filgueiras Lima, also known as Lelé. The Sarah Network is a group of rehabilitation hospitals, conceived in the late 1959. The first rehabilitation center was built in the following year, in the new capital of the country, Brasília, during the government of Juscelino Kubscheck. In 1992 was created the CTRS - Network Technology Center Sarah, where all components have been developed, fittings, joining elements, furniture, in short, all the pieces that make up the constructive system of buildings. Then in 1993 it was built the first hospital in the industrial system, in São Luís, Maranhão. After this, were created eight hospitals under the same system.