functionalist

He was in many ways the first true sociological functionalist.

Functionalists believe societies must have certain characteristics in order to survive.

Functionalists had portrayed crime as a problem to be managed by the legal system.

Functionalists tend to see the relationship between social groups in society as one of cooperation and interdependence.

Functionalists seek an objective understanding of the social world.

Hence, its proponents are known as analytic or conceptual functionalists.

This section turns to the functionalists' claim that stratification is inevitable.

Are sufficiently talented people as few and far between as functionalists suggest'?

Some functionalists actually regard themselves as proponents of structural functionalism.

This tendency is the worst sin committed by over-enthusiastic functionalists.

The functionalists thereby cast blame for the Holocaust across a wider circle.

To be modern, today, does not mean to adhere to old functionalist or minimalist dogmas.

Although functionalists emphasize the importance of value consensus in society, they do recognize that conflict can occur.

The other factor was the assessment by committed federalists and functionalists of exactly what had been achieved.

Functionalists claim that consciousness can be defined as a set of informational processes inside the brain.

What this means, of course, is that functionalists do not see consciousness as a defining feature of the mental.

In practice, functionalists appear preoccupied with discovering the positive functions, the beneficial effects of social institutions.

Functionalists maintain that a certain degree of order and stability is essential for the operation of social systems.

Many critics have questioned the functionalists' emphasis on the limited availability of talented people in societies.

It influenced many modernist architects, in particular functionalists and the Amsterdam School.

Structural functionalists believe that society leans towards social equilibrium and social order.

The functionalists retained an emphasis on conscious experience.

You know how it is - there are a few soreheads everywhere and a lot of them are functionalists.

Many functionalists maintain that the order and stability they see as essential for the maintenance of the social system are largely provided by value consensus.

Hence structural functionalists believe the aim of key institutions, such as education, is to socialize children and teenagers.

The building was designed with the latest architectural features of the day in the Functionalist style.

Later on he adopted the Functionalist approach to architecture.

Many rich and ancient houses from the Functionalist period.

This is an example of a Functionalist system.

The building is an early example of Functionalist architecture in Denmark.

Both buildings have been listed as well sited bearing a functionalist aesthetic.

Built 50 years apart, these commercial office blocks share a balefully functionalist approach to architecture.

It is vital to both functionalist and interactionist understandings of society.

These functionalist parameters can also not explain the continued rebuilding of the hearths, which always are build on the same spot.

This big, spectacular church features many functionalist style elements, as well as astounding paintings.

This is the common Functionalist position.

There are functionalist interpretations of the primordialist evolutionary theory.

A strictly functionalist Marxist must accordingly believe that problems of state co-ordination cannot exist, except in a revolutionary crisis.

The most notable structures along the street are the series of functionalist residential buildings lined-up along its western part.

The interactionist definition of "role" pre-dates the functionalist one.

Clausal backgrounding and pronominal reference: A functionalist approach to c-command.

The firm she set up with her husband Ebbe designed both traditional and more modern Functionalist buildings.

It is based on Functionalist theories of crime and proposes that there are three types of control:

One example is functionalist theory, a school of sociology which, as a distinct 'way of seeing', has had a pervasive influence.

Bauhaus is remembered for its influence on Abstract art and Functionalist architecture and design.

The foremost perspectives on magic in anthropology are functionalist, symbolist and intellectualist.

It is too functionalist.

Dronningegården is characterised by a Functionalist design that balances monumentality with local tradition.

This structuralist-oriented theory took over the behaviorist and functionalist psychological approach which became popular at the time before Piaget' theories were announced.

These negotiations foundered, however, and the city redrew the plans again - now with a programmatically functionalist plan.