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Functionalism |
Durkheim - value consensus Macro/structuralist approach Consensus perspective - everything in society has a function / purpose Social institutions: relationship in society is based on needs and purposes or functional prerequisites Latent and manifest functions - Merton - latent - unintended outcomes Manifest - intended outcomes |
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Criticisms of functionalism |
Macro - agreed with by feminists but not by social action perspectives e.g. symbolic interactionists Consensus - merton-dysfunction. Marxists and feminists heavily criticise nation of consensus, saying it supports the status quo, ignores unequal power relationships et cetera Too deterministic |
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Interactionists |
Weber, Becker, mead
Interactionist theories start with the idea that all individuals interpret society around them-people try to make sense of society. Interactionists say that culture comes from peoples own ideas of how people interact with one another Peoples behaviour is viewed as being driven by the beliefs, meanings, feelings, and emotions they give to situations Mead - symbolic interactionism |
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Interactionism criticisms |
👍🏻 high validity 👎🏻 doesn't explain people's motivations 👎🏻post modernists would reject it as a meta narrative |
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Theory of structuration |
Giddens Two way process by which people are constrained or shaped by society and social institutions, but they can at the same time take action to support, shape and change them |
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Postmodernism |
Stresses chaos and uncertainty Globalisation Lyotard- post modernism as an incredulity towards metanarratives and argued that people no longer believed in the myth of truth Baudrillard- media saturation, media presents simulcra. Hyper reality Commodity fetishism - bauman |
