SOC101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Juvenile Delinquency, Social Control, Political Machine
Document Summary
Functionalism was vulgarized by its critics because of its consensus approach to social problems and conservative approach to their solutions. For durkheim: crime as normal: functionalist approach to crime and deviance continues to survive and to raise questions of an intellectual kind. Social background: main tenets of functionalism: societies can be treated as a system, production, education, government, belief. Should be all examined in terms of their interrelationships and in terms of their contribution to society in general. Ex. pointless to a functionalist to study family and kinship simply in terms of their forms and structures it follows that changes in any one institution have implications for change in others. Kingsely davis: functionalists see the needs of society as different from the needs of individuals. Detach the needs of social system from needs of the individuals who compose it. Talcott parsons: postulated an evolutionary trend in the development of society.
