SOCC40H3 Lecture Notes - Wage Labour, Manifest And Latent Functions And Dysfunctions, Focus Group
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Change with evolution because people are always trying out new things. If it helps you survive: parsons way was to go to agil and said we will know something is positive evolutionary if it allows agil to function better at a higher level. Links differentiation with one of the four functions (agil) If it is going to be functional, does it carry out one of these functions: differentiation + goal. In a household, you contribute to tasks that are for the house. Differentiation means that at some point you take out work functions out of the house and take them somewhere else (firm) Separates goals because now household has goals and firm has goals. Goal of the family, which is outside of the firm, is not to raise children and meet emotional needs or husband and wife. Goal of firm is producing most at least cost. Differentiation; two different goals where there used to be one.
