Functional Perspective Assignment 2022

FUNCTIONALIST
PERSPECTIVE-is primarily concern with why a society assumes
a particular form.
Emile Durkheim-a founder of sociology and is largely
credited with developing the functionalist perspective.

Key Principles of the functionalist
perspective(Farley,1990)
 1. Interdependency-is that society is made up of
interdependent parts. This means that every part of society is
dependent to some extent on other parts of society, so that
what happens at one place in society has important effects
elsewhere.

2. Functions of Social Structure and Culture-this principles is
applied both social structure and culture.
• Social structure refers to the organization of society,
including its institutions, its social positions, and its
distribution of resources.
• Culture refers to a set of beliefs, language, rules, values,
and knowledge held in common by members of a society.