Functionalists : Key Theorists Flashcards

(6 cards)

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Emile Durkheim
What are the key concepts:

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  • creating social solidarity
    Must feel like part of a community
  • teaching specialist skills
    Workforce
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Emile Durkheim
What are the key criticisms?

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  • outdated
  • methodology by Durkheim
  • excluded women from his theory
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Talcott Parsons
What are the key concepts?

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  • school acts like a bridge between home and society
  • meritocracy
  • universalistic/ particularistic
  • equality of oppertunity
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Talcott Parsons
What are the key criticisms?

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  • indispensability
  • functional unity
  • universal functionalism
  • he ignored family diversity
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Davis + Moore
What are the key concepts?

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  • role allocation, selecting jobs based on achievement
  • sifts and sorts students
  • social inequality is necessary
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Davis + Moore
What are the key criticisms?

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  • targets meritocracy, calls it a myth
  • broad
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