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Mind Map by Daniel Johnston, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Daniel Johnston
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Talcott Parsons
- Functional Prerequisites
- Just as our bodies need to resolve basic
needs in order to survive, so do societies
- Adaptation (economic function)
- Every society must provide an
adequate standard of life for the
survival of its members
- Goal attainment (political function)
- Societies must develop
ways of making decisions.
- Societies must develop
ways of making decisions.
- Every society must provide an
adequate standard of life for the
survival of its members
- Integration (social harmony)
- Each institution in society develops
in response to particular functions
- Each institution in society develops
in response to particular functions
- Latency (individual beliefs & values)
- This deals with individuals
and how they cope
- Pattern Maintenance
- The problems faced by people when conflicting demands are
made of them, such as being a member of a minority
religious group and a member of a largely Christian-based
society. (Issue of identity).
- The problems faced by people when conflicting demands are
made of them, such as being a member of a minority
religious group and a member of a largely Christian-based
society. (Issue of identity).
- Tension Management
- For society to exist, it needs to motivate people to
continue to belong to society and not to leave or oppose it.
- For society to exist, it needs to motivate people to
continue to belong to society and not to leave or oppose it.
- This deals with individuals
and how they cope
- Just as our bodies need to resolve basic
needs in order to survive, so do societies
- Pattern Variables
- For a society to exist, it must fulfil
the functional prerequisites.
- Within society, there are five possible
cultural choices of action.
- Affectivity or affective neutrality
- Societies can be characterized either by
close interpersonal relationships between
people, or by relationships where the
majority of interactions are value free.
- Societies can be characterized either by
close interpersonal relationships between
people, or by relationships where the
majority of interactions are value free.
- Specificity or diffuseness
- The relationships people have can be
based on only one link or on many.
- The relationships people have can be
based on only one link or on many.
- Universalism or particularism
- We believe that rules should apply equally to
everyone, yet in many societies, rules are not
regarded as being necessary to all.
- We believe that rules should apply equally to
everyone, yet in many societies, rules are not
regarded as being necessary to all.
- Quality or Performance
- Should people be treated according to their
abilities or by their social position at birth?
- Should people be treated according to their
abilities or by their social position at birth?
- Self-orientation or collectivity orientation
- Do the societies stress the importance of individual
lives and happiness or that of the group?
- Do the societies stress the importance of individual
lives and happiness or that of the group?
- For a society to exist, it must fulfil
the functional prerequisites.
- His work dominated US sociology
- Provides a useful and relatively simple framework
- As did Durkheim, Parsons starting point
was that of the "Organic Analogy"
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