SOCI 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Kingsley Davis, Estrous Cycle
8 Mar 2018
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He believed that functionalism was best suited in explaining prostitution; why is that a practice that is so widely disapproved of and outlawed in western. Civilization - flourishes universally: he argues that it is the worlds oldest profession and that it would never be eliminated due to the important social functions it serves. Prostitution is associated with drug usage/addiction, violence, harmful. Potential benefits under functionalism : physiological: females do not have periods of anoestrus and different from. A level of integration in some form of way. Reduces crime - this could be correlated with rape rates. There is something that is about the inherent character of society other than the economic argument that explains this reality. It is not simply an economically motivated behaviour. Raisi(cid:374)g the (cid:449)ages for (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374) so that they do(cid:374)"t (cid:272)hoose prostitution fails as the sector is not limited to poor-class women and working women alone and completely ignores the demand side.
