SOCIOL 2LL3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Talcott Parsons, Niklas Luhmann, Structural Functionalism

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 2LL3
• Professor: D.Young

Document Summary

Is not a structural functionalism because structure functionalism does not occur at the time. Durkheim is interested in the issue of social order. How modern society (inter-dependence of its various components: structural functionalism start to developed in the 1940s, the contribution of two key theorists, two american sociologists. Talcott parsons and robert k. merton: talcott parsons. He was a professor at the department of sociology at harvard. In late 1930 he play a key role in developed structural. The social system (1951: his major statement/ idea on structural functionalism, robert k. merton. Merton has studied under parsons, is one of his student. Under studied at harvard university, he became professor at the. Begin in the late 1940s merton try to make his own contribution/ idea to structural functionalism: he was critical at parsons, he want to take further, he solve problem in parsons"s work.