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UNESCO EOLSSSAMPLE CHAPTERSHISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS AND THEORETICAL APPROACHES IN SOCIOLOGY Vol. II - Functionalism and its Critics - John Holmwood Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems ( EOLSS ) Functionalism AND ITS Critics John Holmwood Dept. of Sociology, University of Birmingham,UK Keywords: AGIL, Cause, conflict theory, culture, End of Ideology , function, functional unity of society, indispensability, latent functions, manifest functions, neo- Functionalism , norms, order, personality, rational actor, social integration, Structure, system integration, universal Functionalism , values Contents 1. Functionalism in anthropology 2. Robert Merton: manifest and latent functions 3. Talcott Parsons: Functionalism as unified general theory Action and the Unit-Act Systems The Problem of Order Power, Values and Norms Personality, Culture, and the Social System Structural Differentiation 4.

HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS AND THEORETICAL APPROACHES IN SOCIOLOGY – Vol. II - Functionalism and its Critics - John Holmwood ©Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS) exert a significant impact on sociology in Europe, played little role in their work. This was the context in which the leading proponents of sociological functionalism,

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