A functionalist view of stratification views stratification as necessary for a society to function efficiently which enables it to reach its full potential economically and socially. Functionalists view society as a set of interconnected parts which work together to form a whole. (Haralambos et al 1996) Institutions are part of the social system they are a prime contributor to the maintenance of a society. The functionalist view has been criticised‚ this essay seeks to explore some of these criticisms
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Durkheim’s functionalist theory -Functionalists see society as based on value consensus (members of society sharing common culture). -Culture: Set of shared norms (rules)‚ values‚ beliefs and goals shared culture produces social solidarity and binding people together. -Functionalists argue there are two mechanisms needed for society to achieve solidarity: Socialisation: instils the shared culture into its members ensuring we internalise the same norms and values‚ and meet society’s requirements
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Kuhn ’s Paradigms to the History of Linguistics. Language‚ 52(2)‚ 285-294. Retrieved from http://people.ku.edu/~percival/Kuhn ’sParadigms.pdf This is a credible journal written by Keith Percival from the university of Kansas applying Kuhn paradigm concept to the history of Linguistics. Percival displays two questions in this article: "Has Kuhn ’s Paradigm concept been correctly applied?" and "is the theory applicable to Linguistics?". He first explains Kuhn ’s concepts of the paradigm for readers
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Discuss the functionalist perspective on religion. (20 marks) The functionalist perspective is a consensus theory; it believes that society has a set of shared values and beliefs. Durkheim was the 1st functionalist to develop the idea that religious institutions play a central part in creating and maintaining value consensus‚ order and solidarity. The anthropologist‚ Malinowski‚ built on Durkheim’s idea and expanded with his own ideas. The functionalists‚ Parsons and Bellah later added their own
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Marital Paradigm I grew up in a joint family in India‚ which had 3 married couple and their kids. Marital relationships that I saw in my family were not great but not bad either. All the men used to work in the family business and the women used to take care of the children and the house. Many times my parents used to fight and my dad used to scream at my mom‚ but my mom never had the guts to say anything to him. I always saw that my mom was scared of him and I used to question myself why doesn’t
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Asses the functionalist view that religion benefits both society as a whole and its individual members. 33marks The functionalist view of religion stems from Durkheim who said that society is like the human body. He argued that that religion reinforces collective conscience that leads to a unity within society as a whole and that each member of the society is joined in solidarity‚ therefore it acts as glue. It does so by reinforcing social norms and values that bring the community together. It
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This period in history reflected the principles of functionalist theory‚ which believed that each part of society served a place and contributed to the stability of society as a whole. The post WWII generation was predisposed to resonate with the theories of Robert K Merton‚ a sociologist who emphasized middle range theory‚ criticized grand theorists in sociology‚ and exemplified functionalist theory. The “organic” metaphor in functionalist theory looked at society as a giant organism that could
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Making differences matter: A new paradigm for managing diversity‚ written by David A. Thomas and Robin J. Ely‚ demonstrates the various types of diversity management‚ the ways in which they work‚ and how they can possibly have an adverse affect on companies. As stated in this article: Our goal is to help business leaders see what their own approach to diversity currently is and how it may already have influenced their companies’ diversity efforts. Managers can learn to asses whether they need to
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alternative Indigenous research paradigm to inform Indigenous governance” (2010‚ 45). McGregor‚ Bayha and Simmons successfully argue their thesis by being objective in presenting their paper and by discussing the limitations of performing research the Indigenous way. The authors‚ however‚ weaken their argument by using only a small‚ localized number of participants in their workshop. Despite this weakness‚ they still effectively communicate their argument that a new paradigm should be considered for researching
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Like the intentionalists‚ the functionalists did have some stronger arguments. Mommsen refers to the Holocaust as a “political process which eventually led to the conclusion that there was no way out but to kill the Jews in Auschwitz and elsewhere.” He further put forth his belief “this did not come into being before the second half of 1941.” Intentionalists cannot counter this claim easily‚ “No one has uncovered any SS plans for the relocation of Jews in the Soviet interior‚” intentionalist Richard
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