Functionalism
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- Functionalism is a theory of society that focuses on the structures that create the society and on how the society is able to remain stable.
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In this short clip, the video has a good explanation of the topic functionalism, it refers to a psychological philosophy that considers mental life and behaviour in terms of active adaptation to the person's environment. The example given in this video explained how people live and fulfil their basic needs and what functionalism focuses on is both social fact as well as institutions but the majority of the part is played by institutions. Functionalism is focused on maintaining equilibrium in a society that little significant change is modelled and no conflict can occur, It is helpful in understanding the working of socity by examining the functions of its integral structures.
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Sydney's exposition of the various schools of thought or approaches or theories in social science; make it clear that all of those aspects of social science, are ideologies as well as whatever else they are. We can subscribe to and invest in a particular school of thought, or methodological approach or theory, because a particular one resonates with us as persons or as members of a grouping, because a particular one 'works' for us while others might not. So such schools or thought and methodological approaches and theories, gain adherence or do not across a meta-circumstance on a deeper plane than those three aspects of social science address.
People don't realize it but when societies get bigger, individuals become even more dependent on each other. This is largely because of the division of labor. Think of a man, or woman, who lives in the woods and grows all his or her own food and makes all his own clothes. Now, compare him or her to someone in New York who doesn't ever do laundry or wash dishes. There's nothing objectively wrong with either scenario. They're just different ways of living as human beings. Damn, I wrote this right before she said it near the end. I guess that's my sociology degree influencing how I think. I can't recommend sociology highly enough. It makes living in society so much more meaningful.
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It says functionalism gives little attention to individuals but aren't individuals at the core of the whole idea of institution? As i see it individuals make up an institution. How them specializing in something and them being interdependent on each other in a modern society undermine one's individual value?
Rastafaria, kind of. Many individuals make up a society, but the lose of any particular one doesn't really affect the society as a whole. Their are exceptions to the rule. ALWAYS. But, from the functionalist perspective society continues as before whether you are dead or alive, adjusting the distribution to account for your now lacking productivity until the equilibrium is restored and someone takes your place on the production line. Now, you might be able to stretch your point to the family and work it down to the individual. As we are all human it is our natural instinct to want to continue our genetics through copulation. Now we could do that by having lots of partners and lots of children. However we have only limited time and resources to give to each and every child and partner so, as a function of society, the family (nucleus family) and marriage, allow us the most stable and effective manor of raising children. It is functional because it not only allows us to achieve natures intended goal but also to do it in a manner that can still allow us to help society, we can allow our children in schools whilst we continue to work throughout the day (continued production). If this style of reproduction is lost (and it seems to be going that way. More single parent children with each new generation) then I don't know how society can withstand the backlash of negativity it will bring with it.
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There is a surprisingly Zen like aspect to functionalism. Though it sometimes may support different social agendas, I like how it describes society as fluid object only morphing to regain a balanced state, meaning the molecules within the fluid must adapt to fit into its shape. The only conflict arises when you look at a micro level and see the effect of change on a single individual. But this is where psychology steps in and the model changes from society to the human brain or self.
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I appreciate this simple breakdown of this theory and understand it so much better. Thank you very much
Just want to make a note about social currents, which is the key to understanding Durkheim's methods....
Durkheim said we can't study social currents directly, and that's why he said it is best to study them in terms of the rates they produce. The rates themselves are social facts. For example, before, during and after a big sporting event, like the Super Bowl, it will produce a social current. But you can't measure that atmosphere directly. So instead, you measure the volume of the crowd, or you count things, like the number of cars that get vandalized after the game, or the number of people who made love afterwards. It's the same for suicide. Donald Trump got elected and created a massive shared experience, or social current. Calls to suicide hotlines surged. Those calls to the hotlines would be a social fact. The suicides on that day would be a social fact. The current is the shared social feeling that lead to the rise in phone calls or suicides. This criticism of this method is it doesn't capture the full extent of the social current. Today it is believed that it is best to combine it with qualitative methods, such as in depth interview and ethnography.
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Would probably be a good idea to add which type of functionalism you are talking about in the title. There are many theories of functionalism outside of sociology.
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Great video, I finally got my head around functionalism!
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Fab... really helped me understand functionalism
thx so much for this video, you explained it really well and I now understand Functionalism
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how can I apply Functional theory to understand the changes to the family in response to the increased divorce rate in Australian society??
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Do you happen to have transcripts for the five videos? Love them, and want to create a note-taking guide for my high school Sociology students so they can follow along and take notes.
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Can you relate this to crime and punishment in any way?
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what could be a functionalist perspective about enhanced containment?
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Great video,but who talked about Latent and Manifest Funcions wasnt Durkeim, but Merton
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whats the difference between functionalism and structural functionalism?
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Very explanatory... Please i need a movie link that depicts this functionalism.. I need it for my oral test ASAP...Anyone that can help please
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Hey! Was just wondering. You used 'laws/the law' as examples of both an institution and a social fact. Do you think you could explain how you are able to further differentiate between the two? I feel like law is more of an institution, in that it was very much created by a bunch of people deciding what is or is not okay, and it is binding and organises life. Less organic than a way of thinking or a 'social fact'. I kind of understand the difference between religion: the institution and religion in practice, as a social fact, I think. Does each institution have it's social fact counterpart?
Also, I feel like things like laws can be influenced by individuals themselves, like how a man like Eddie Mabo can fight for Native Title land rights and then all of a sudden, native title becomes a legislative act. Do you mean instead not that laws cannot be influenced, but that laws, in some way shape or form, will always exist?
Also, the idea of a society as a biological organism with all of the parts working together to serve the whole- isn't that more structural-functionalism? Not trying to poke holes, just interested! Just completed an anthro major and realising how little I really understand about it!!! I love this video
good information, however you talked too fast and the information gets lost, try speaking slower for another video
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functionalism = too much reduction, with crime , big busness [amazon] etc
it only took me 2 minutes to realize this wasn't about psychology
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help me with what the conflict and functionalism say about aging people
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hey I just wanted to know how would someone from the structural functionalist paradigm analyze the film freedom writers? Please Help!!
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what make it different from postfunctinalist theory ?
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You talked too fast, I had to replay it over too many times
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what is social facts I didn't understand what is social facts?.
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Functionalism is it abiut mertons functionalism