Structural Functionalism
STRUCTURAL FUNCTIONALISM
This assignment is about the explanation of structural functionalism using different sociologists. These sociologists have different explanations but discuss a perspective for addressing and understanding of social problems in our world, which is the interplay between society and citizens. Structural functionalism includes the social imagination, culture and society, socialization, the functionalist approach to education, and social interaction and everyday life.
Mills (2000) says, for us to understand world, we need to have sociological imagination. Sociological imagination is the capacity to range from the most impersonal and remote transformations to the most intimate features of the human self and to see the relations between the two. It has to look at people, society and all things government has to do with, enables us to grasp history and biography. We see how life is affected by the history, relation dynamics always changing by looking at the collapse of a society. (Mills, 2000, p.7).
History is the key, allows us to see how a society came to be, where do we sit in terms of past and how a society is constantly transforming. Once people have come to sociological imagination, they will understand the major common denominator of their cultural life because sociological imagination takes place in our minds, is all about thinking. Sociological imagination is the most fruitful form self-consciousness, works with the public issues of social structures. Issue is a public matter, often involves crisis such as causes of war, economy, politics and family. (Mills, 2000, p.9).
For example when in a nation of 50 million employees, 15 million men are unemployed, that is an issue and we may find its solution within the range of opportunities open to any one individual, government is involved. The very structure of opportunities has collapsed. (Mills, 2000, p.7).
The modern world forces us to find ourselves in activities that take place with
This assignment is about the explanation of structural functionalism using different sociologists. These sociologists have different explanations but discuss a perspective for addressing and understanding of social problems in our world, which is the interplay between society and citizens. Structural functionalism includes the social imagination, culture and society, socialization, the functionalist approach to education, and social interaction and everyday life.
Mills (2000) says, for us to understand world, we need to have sociological imagination. Sociological imagination is the capacity to range from the most impersonal and remote transformations to the most intimate features of the human self and to see the relations between the two. It has to look at people, society and all things government has to do with, enables us to grasp history and biography. We see how life is affected by the history, relation dynamics always changing by looking at the collapse of a society. (Mills, 2000, p.7).
History is the key, allows us to see how a society came to be, where do we sit in terms of past and how a society is constantly transforming. Once people have come to sociological imagination, they will understand the major common denominator of their cultural life because sociological imagination takes place in our minds, is all about thinking. Sociological imagination is the most fruitful form self-consciousness, works with the public issues of social structures. Issue is a public matter, often involves crisis such as causes of war, economy, politics and family. (Mills, 2000, p.9).
For example when in a nation of 50 million employees, 15 million men are unemployed, that is an issue and we may find its solution within the range of opportunities open to any one individual, government is involved. The very structure of opportunities has collapsed. (Mills, 2000, p.7).
The modern world forces us to find ourselves in activities that take place with