Literary Criticisms Of Functionalism

Criticisms of functionalism are that it ignores class oppression. Although class oppression can be positive, most of the times it is not. When it comes to the stability in a society, the capitalists tend to use their power and authority to scare the working class into stuff that is not necessary. Functionalism also ignores gender oppression. Women are often oppressed whether it’s them not being able to do certain stuff because it’s to “manly” for them or even the roles they play in media. Functionalism also ignores individual’s choices. The reason why functionalism ignores individual’s choices is because when functionalist do research, they do their research on a macro-view, which ignores individual’s choices. Lastly another criticisms
of functionalism is that it’s no longer relevant in the postmodern society. The theory is no longer relevant because society is being increasingly fragmented.
Postmodernist also argue that functionalist talks about society as if it is stable when society is really not stable.