This essay will be explaining the seven principle sociological perspectives. The seven principle sociological perspectives are Functionalism, Marxism, Feminism, Interactionism, Postmodernism, The New Right and Collectivism. Sociology is the understanding of different people, breaking down the word sociology; ‘soci’ means society and ‘ology’ means the science of. The main aim of sociology is to try to describe and explain human behaviour within society. Sociology studies subjects such as religion, crime, family, law, poverty, prejudice, race and gender. Sociology also studies different terms which include social structures, social diversity and socialisation. A social structure means the things that make up society in the UK, for example how
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There are seven aspects of society which include Religion, Education, The Media, Law and Order, Family, Health and Social Care and the Workforce. Functionalists believe that without one of these aspects, society will not run. Functionalists see society like a human body, every part of your body has a function to keep it alive and healthy, just like every part of society has a function to keep it going, the human body grows and develops, whereas societies gradually develops and changes. All the aspects of society depend on each other just like the human body links together. Society has mechanisms to deal with problems when they occur, just like the body fights diseases. This is called Organic Analogy. A key concept used by functionalist is ‘value consensus’, a value consensus exists if most of the people in a society share the same value, an ‘agreement’, if the vast majority of society shares the same values then value consensus would be reached. Functionalists see that a good health within the society is essential for the function of society to be successful. They believe that it is the society’s responsibility to promote good health. Talcott Parsons argued societies see illness as deviant or ‘abnormal’ behaviour, as it interferes with the normal functions and social roles people are expected to …show more content…
Postmodernists believe that the institutions that make up society such as the government, family, education and religion constantly change, for example, the family. There is the ‘nuclear family’ which is a man and a woman living together with their children. However there are now many other types of family such as single parent families which is the mother or father looking after their children on their own, same sex families which is where they have two mums or two dads and the extended family which is other family members such as aunts, uncles and grandparents living in the same house. Postmodernists argue that doctors aren’t as high rated as they used to be, one reason for this is the media, newspapers reporting mistakes made by doctors. This could also be due to the internet, people Google their symptoms and self-diagnose them self’s, when in actual fact the internet can be very wrong and make you worry. In today 's society, postmodernism has led to relativism, the idea that all truth is relative, for example sexual morality, the view that sex outside marriage is wrong. Postmodernists believe that this might be applicable for religious but not for others so this why sexual morality has become more permissive in our society.(Zavada
There are seven aspects of society which include Religion, Education, The Media, Law and Order, Family, Health and Social Care and the Workforce. Functionalists believe that without one of these aspects, society will not run. Functionalists see society like a human body, every part of your body has a function to keep it alive and healthy, just like every part of society has a function to keep it going, the human body grows and develops, whereas societies gradually develops and changes. All the aspects of society depend on each other just like the human body links together. Society has mechanisms to deal with problems when they occur, just like the body fights diseases. This is called Organic Analogy. A key concept used by functionalist is ‘value consensus’, a value consensus exists if most of the people in a society share the same value, an ‘agreement’, if the vast majority of society shares the same values then value consensus would be reached. Functionalists see that a good health within the society is essential for the function of society to be successful. They believe that it is the society’s responsibility to promote good health. Talcott Parsons argued societies see illness as deviant or ‘abnormal’ behaviour, as it interferes with the normal functions and social roles people are expected to …show more content…
Postmodernists believe that the institutions that make up society such as the government, family, education and religion constantly change, for example, the family. There is the ‘nuclear family’ which is a man and a woman living together with their children. However there are now many other types of family such as single parent families which is the mother or father looking after their children on their own, same sex families which is where they have two mums or two dads and the extended family which is other family members such as aunts, uncles and grandparents living in the same house. Postmodernists argue that doctors aren’t as high rated as they used to be, one reason for this is the media, newspapers reporting mistakes made by doctors. This could also be due to the internet, people Google their symptoms and self-diagnose them self’s, when in actual fact the internet can be very wrong and make you worry. In today 's society, postmodernism has led to relativism, the idea that all truth is relative, for example sexual morality, the view that sex outside marriage is wrong. Postmodernists believe that this might be applicable for religious but not for others so this why sexual morality has become more permissive in our society.(Zavada