SOC244H5 Study Guide - Social Exchange Theory
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Such ownership vests a person with the power to exclude others from the property and to use it for personal purposes. Stresses integration, shared values and social stability. It focuses on: large scale structures and institutions of society and their interrelationships, and constraining effects on individuals. Functionalists believed in a theory that the family is a positive institution. They hold the view that meets well with the needs of an advanced industrial society for a geographically and socially mobile workforce. Functionalists highlight the ideal family type in a modern society, as the nuclear family. The view of the nuclear family comprises of a breadwinner husband dependant wife and children. Limitation: unable to account for social change because it focuses much on social order and equilibrium in society. Structural functionalists other limitation is that it supports the status quo. Malinkowski: challenged traditional nineteenth century proponents of social evolution.
