ACCTG 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Neofunctionalism, Ultraist Movement, Public Sociology
Document Summary
Society, community, deviance and conflict: problematic concepts for functionalism. Society: an ideal type ; a social system composed of uniform, homogeneous cultural values and social norms. Cultural values form society and become norms through these shared norms and values, we have been socialised in sharing these. People comply with social norms/expectations because they recognise them as theirs. Equilibrium: made possible through enforcing and policing cultural values. Functionalism stresses, praises, and rewards consensus and continuity, not conflict and change possible because they theorised different subsystems. Societies function based on the following premises: the different sub-systems are compatible and support each other, the system meets the needs of its actors, the system requires participation, conflict should be controlled. Deviance behaviour that deviates from or breaks the social rules of what is expected as. Conflict essential to social life; we become social through conflict.
