Structrual Funcitonalists Flashcards
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Structural functionalism
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Everything has a role and every role serves a function
Concerned with social roles more than individuals
Consensus Theory
2
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Parsons Worldview
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believed things were slowly changing for the better over time without intervention
3
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Gouldner and Mills - Critiques of Parsons
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CONFLICT THEORIST
Functionalism can justify bad things (i.e. the impoverished serve a purpose so should stay impoverished)
Sociologists exist within the society they theorize about, must recognize bias
Parson’s concept of power – ‘morally sanctioned power’ but sanctioned by who? Those in power can justify their own power.
