LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
In this chapter, we will discuss the following important topics.
- Bronislaw Malinowski
- A.R. Radcliffe- Brown
- Talcott Parsons
- Robert K. Merton
- Claude Levi Strauss
INTRODUCTION
In Sociology, structural functionalism addresses social structures both in their entirety and in terms of the essential functions achieved by their constituent elements. Structural functionalism emphasized the formal ordering of parts and their functional interrelationships as contributing to the maintenance needs of an ordered arrangement of parts. The function of any institution is the role it plays in the maintenance of the larger structural totality. ...
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