Question 1: Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of functionalist explanations as applied to the study of contemporary society. Support your response with details and examples from studies conducted in the Caribbean on stratification. Functionalism is a consensus perspective that sees society as based on shared values into which members are socialized. It sees society as like an organism, each part performing functions to maintain the system as a whole. For example, religion, the education system
to contemporary Britain and one other society, explain ways in which the societies are held together through common cultures but are also unequal and divided. This essay will demonstrate some key concepts in sociology by providing an insight into how contemporary British and Indian societies have held together through common cultures but are unequal and divided. It will explain how shared culture, social organisation, values and norms between the two societies may help produce stability and conformity
1 - What is meant by the term ‘social integration’? How did Emile Durkheim explain the differences in integration between modern and pre-modern societies? Emile Durkheim introduced the theory of social integration in the late nineteenth century, it is the means through which people interact, connect and confirm each other within a community. It is a way of describing the established patterns of human relations in societies. The differences in integration between modern and pre-modern societies
be considered a social science. Functionalists analyse what needs must be adhered to in order for society to function, including the ways in which social institutions benefit and contribute to those needs. Functionalists believe that society functions when all of its parts work in accordance with one another. It is believed that society is held together by a social consensus or a cohesion, meaning that members of a particular society work together to maintain the best for the society as a whole (Fulcher
Part A: What is the difference between normative and technical rationality? Moral dimension in leadership is depend on normative rationality. Normative rationality is a rationality based on what we believe and what we consider to be good. Technical rationality is a rationality based on what is effective and efficient. Both normative and technical rationality have value however when they are in conflict, normative rationality should always be used. Normative rationality is center of the moral dimension
reaction in a particular group (153). Deviance can be anything. A certain sociably acceptable act in one culture can be seen as deviant in another culture it does not matter how large or small the act. Sociologist developed three theories to help explain deviance. Sociologists explored the functionalism, conflict, and symbolic interactionism approaches to deviance. Emile Durkheim studied deviance with the functionalism approach. Functionalism argues that each element of social structure helps maintain
complexity, and later on included cultural and social evolution by comparing primitive tribal groups to modern society, and studying how certain aspects in the tribal groups were repeated all over the continent. Edward B. Tylor and Lewis H. Morgan brought the term "evolution" to anthropology, which makes them crucial to the growth and improvement of anthropology. Morgan focused on building upon his theory of social evolution in which he made links between social and technological progress. He studied
Max Weber were three historical sociologists. Their views have become world renown and have shaped many ways of interpreting the social structure of many modern societies. This essay will take a glimpse into the three sociologists’ ideals and expose the similarities and differences they may have. Karl Marx’s view of society was based around the economy. All other social structures according to Marx, such as religion, family values, and politics stem from the base, the economy. Religion played no
played in role in the formation of their own attitudes. The culture of the society in America at the time had also affected how the students had formed their attitudes. African-Americans had been made ‘equal’ yet material evidence of this in society was not evident, prejudices had not yet died out of society. For races to integrate was not yet socially and culturally acceptable and the students were either brought up in the society and culture to believe and have attitudes that the races were not equal
What aspects of modernity most worried Durkheim? Modernity is a collection of Idea’s that foster new ways of thinking about the subjects of society, economics and political thinking in comparison to the classical way of sociological ideas. Modernity was a name given to a big idea, a big sociological theory, which consisted of lots of smaller ideas. It was a historical change, whereby more than two hundred years in the past, European societies underwent a significant and quite rapid change in all