Parsons Organic Analogy

Question 1

What are the 4 system needs?

Answer 1

-adaptation
-goal attainment
-integration
-latency

Question 2

What is adaptation?

Answer 2

Material needs met through the economic sub-system

Question 3

What is goal attainment?

Answer 3

Goals are set & provided to meet them through the political sub-system

Question 4

What is integration?

Answer 4

Parts of society must be integrated to peruse shared goals through sub systems

Question 5

What are the instrumental needs?

Answer 5

-adaptation
-goal attainment

Question 6

What are the expressive needs?

Answer 6

-integration
-latency

Question 7

What is the value system?

Answer 7

-socialisation
-social control

Question 8

What is socialisation in the value system?

Answer 8

Individuals are taught to want to do what is needed to be done. The norms and values are ‘internalised’

Question 9

What is social control in the value system?

Answer 9

Positive sanctions reward conformity and negative ones punish deviance

Question 10

What are the 3 parts of the organic analogy?

Answer 10

-system
-system needs
-functions

Question 11

What is latency?

Answer 11

Processes that maintain society over time, kinship sub-system provides pattern maintenance & tension management to maintain this