Functionalism Flashcards
Who created it
Emilie Durkheim
What does it look at
Society from a large scale perspective
Examples of institutions
Education systems, finance, business, marriage
Social facts
Way of thinking and acting formed by society that existed before any one individual
Manifest functions
Recognised and intended consequences
Latent functions
Unrecognised and unintended consequences
What assumes all parts of society have an important role to play
Functionalism
Organic analogy theory
Representing the functionalist of society through the human body
Who had functionalist ideas
Compte
Minnesota twin study
1979 Separated at birth One raised Jewish One raised ani Semitic Immediate similarities
What happened in the twin study
Separated at birth
One raised catholic and anti Semitic and the other raised Jewish, reunited and immediate similarities
Social solidarity
United as a society, shared norms and values
- encourage moral responsibility
- prevents individualism and anomie
Skills provision
Teachers need skills as a result of complex division labour
- general skills eg literacy/ numeracy
- specialised skills
Social facts
Thinking formed by society that existed before any one individual
Manifest
Recognised and intended consequences
