Parsons Organic Analogy Flashcards
What are the 4 system needs?
-adaptation
-goal attainment
-integration
-latency
What is adaptation?
Material needs met through the economic sub-system
What is goal attainment?
Goals are set & provided to meet them through the political sub-system
What is integration?
Parts of society must be integrated to peruse shared goals through sub systems
What are the instrumental needs?
-adaptation
-goal attainment
What are the expressive needs?
-integration
-latency
What is the value system?
-socialisation
-social control
What is socialisation in the value system?
Individuals are taught to want to do what is needed to be done. The norms and values are ‘internalised’
What is social control in the value system?
Positive sanctions reward conformity and negative ones punish deviance
What are the 3 parts of the organic analogy?
-system
-system needs
-functions
What is latency?
Processes that maintain society over time, kinship sub-system provides pattern maintenance & tension management to maintain this
