Assess The Contribution Of Functionalism To Our Understanding Of Society

Functionalists indicate that society relies on how each part of itself is structured in order to maintain its stability. Through the conflict perspective, people believe that social behavior is better understood through times of tension or disagreement over power or through rationing of resources. Interactioninsts believe that social interaction in your everyday life, best explains society as a whole. Interactionists view society as manipulating and affecting ever day social interaction. Depending on what people have experienced through social interaction, will decide whether or not the will obey a law. As said before, the conflicts view society as tension and struggle between groups of power as the best example of social behavior and laws