Functionalist View Essay

The extended mind hypothesis argues that processes external to our physical brain can still constitute as part of our cognitive and mental practices, thereby breaking down the barriers which maintain that cognition is solely internal to our self. The main thrust of the extended mind hypothesis is that if the only distinction between two practices is that one is internal to the mind and the other is external, then they should be correlated as cognitively equivalent. This is because the…

One can view the mind-body problem to differentiate his or her mental and physical perspective. An individual can address his or her perspective as a monist, dualist or functionalist. Monism is a philosophical approach of the universe being ultimately one thing or substance. (26) For instance, a monist would be a belief that there is only one God. Furthermore, dualists hold the belief that the mind and body have two opposite principles. (28) An example of dualism would be evil vs. good. In…

Lie 2012:90). These behaviors can be better understood from the perspective of a conflict theorist as the relation between classes, produced a more competitive environment which helps the individual to improve (Brym and Lie 2012:5). In the views of a functionalist, the structure in which only the smartest and strongest was respected and allowed to join and stay in the group created a social hierarchy and enabled social inequality to persist (Brym and Lie 2012:5). The only way to increase your…

First of all, in the past two decades, and especially in the last few years, some sociologists and anthropologists have started to examine a number of areas and activities in modern societies using approaches drawn from analyses of ritual, ceremony, and symbolism. The connection of symbol and ritual to the nation of National Socialism has not been highlighted often. Continuing hereby with the first reading that I read, Francois Foret highlighted that European Union being an international…

Functionalist sociologists, such as Emile Durkheim, project a consensus theory on society. However the idea of consensus, when it comes to suicide, doesn’t fit perfectly. Durkheim addressed this within his work through a book he wrote a book called “Le suicide”. This book states that the idea of suicide being a product of individuality, meaning only individuals have power on whether they decided to commit suicide or not, is actually an illusion and that society itself has massive amounts of…

There are four kinds of literacy in our daily life, functionalist literacy, a basic literacy to help people achieve the basic knowledge and need; cultural literacy, a literacy usually use grace language, stories to tell next generation about the experiences; literacy-for-personal-growth, a literacy about nurturing the personal ability of learning language; critical literacy, a literacy help people to find themselves and show the way how people think (Knoblauch 451-457). Critical literacy is a…

Before 1980’s an average family in China had approximately four children and the population was getting out of hand which led to food shortage and famine. The communist party took in charge of the problem during 1980’s and restricted one child per couple in order to stabilize water and food supplies. The goal was to keep the population under 1.2 billion by the end of the twentieth century. Since 1980 doctors all over China, doctors have performed 196 sterilizations and 336 abortions to help…

Social stratification in America, the hierarchical ranking that society assigns based off of rights and prerequisites of different positions, has caused economic inequality to sky rocket. By 2004, America’s top 1 percent of earners obtained 16 percent of the country’s total income, double their 8 percent share twenty years prior. By such a hefty economic boost for the nation’s top earners, it begs to question what the other 99 percent of earners should obtain, and how their net economic loss to…

“Social Structure” is the most misconstrued term both in philosophical literature and in ordinary language. This is because society is formed of complex structures. The society in: ‘acceptance of collective good” or “acceptance of individual good”, reflects contradictory theories. Society is complete as it is understood in terms of resources it produces. Yet, an approach to individualism and collectivism reflects difference f structures a society holds. (Ferrante, 2012) Individualism approach…

meritocracy. It is within the arts, films, music and literature that are produced by a culture that researchers can identify the evolution of change from analyzing the micro symbolic interactionism between individuals to the social consensus in the functionalist theory that produces an organic solidarity. Each of these theoretical paradigms allow one the ability to change perspectives in order to deduce how values and norms are modified. Although each theoretical theory can be applied to the…