SOCIOL 2S06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Cultural System, Social System, Unix System Iii
15 Dec 2017
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Social order, (action systems, functions) parsons" was very interested in the iss action systems that the spoke about helped to provide order in society. They all have their functions and those functions are to help maintain society t. Social system, the social system controls relations between its component par ensure order among the component parts. Cultural system, provides ppl with norms and values which exist in society to p tell ppl what is acceptable and not acceptable in terms of behaviour, and tries. Parsons did make some allowance for social change, (the behavioural organism organism may adjusts to and transform the external environment, and so the b organism is associated with some element of social change. Overall picture we get is that of an ordered and static society, one that does n. The hierarchy of action system -- parson saw these four action systems in term of a. He put the cultural system at the top of the hierarchy.
