Sociology 2240E Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Talcott Parsons, Kingsley Davis, Wilbert E. Moore
23 Feb 2021
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Agil: adaptation, goal attainment, integration & latency. Concerned with specific structures of conditions to allow. Although used interchangeably, functionalism and structural functionalism are quite overlapping. Functionalism was the first term to appear, as it is a theoretical perspective that grew out directly of the thinking of their kind and it was widely accepted across all social sciences including sociology. In the early to mid-part of the 20th century, it"s a perspective that explains how every society is a total sum of interrelated parts. Each part: politics, economics, religion, law, etc. plays an important function to make society work. Structural functionalism as an extension of functionalism, developed in these times of economic and political stability by taking the functionalist ideas a step further. It"s early kingsley davis & wilbert moore along with parsons & merton. Try to identify the specific structures or conditions in society that allow each society to function properly.
