![]() Structural Functionalist also considers economy, religion, polity, education, marriage family, kinship as groups. A group could be a crowd of people in a movie theater, or the members of a family, corporations, factories, university systems, communities, etc. they focus on the study of groups rather than the individual. ![]() So, functionalism theory focuses on consensus, social order, and social stability than on change and on the structure and mandatory function of the parts that make up the whole.įor Structural functionalists, its parts, such as groups are the basic unit of analysis i.e. All these parts (such as institutions) function to keep society stable. Economics provides for the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services and religion provides moral guidance to members of society. Politics provides a means of governing the members of society. Education offers a way to transfer society’s skills, knowledge, and culture to its youth. each of the social institutions contributes important functions for society the family provides an environment for reproducing, nurturing, and socializing children. work together to keep the whole body system functioning.Į.g. It suggests that each interconnected, interdependent parts of the structure contribute to the functioning of the whole system (whole system here means the ‘ society‘) which is just like the human body where every part, such as the brain, heart, kidney, lungs, etc.
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