STRUCTURAL FUNCTIONALISM & CONFLICT THEORY

Structural Functionalism and Conflict Theory

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Structural Functionalism and Conflict Theory

Functional Structuralism and Spencer

The combination of functionalism and structuralism represents a theoretical orientation that integrates concepts of function and structure. Structural functionalism has its nineteenthcentury origins in a neosocial Darwinian, organic, and evolutionist conception of society that came to dominate the disciplines of sociology and social anthropology in the United States and western Europe. For (Spencer, 1998), there were four basic problems that all systems, including organismic and societal, had to resolve: production, reproduction, regulation, and distribution.

Functional Structuralism and Durkheim

Durkheim argued that crime and punishment have ...