Theoretical Perspectives

Theoretical Perspectives

Structural Functionalism

So what is structural-functionalist perspective? It is generally understood as a way of viewing our social surroundings in terms of its norms and traditions. Some might better understand this through relating this system as in relation with body and other organs and glands that make up the part of the human body. The society is basically made up of all these norms and traditions that we are so used to and these are what make up the so called “society” or the structure of it as we know it today. Since functionalism looks at the society as parts ...