Structural functionalism, or simply functionalism, is "a framework for building theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together...

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functionalism through the middle years of the 20th century, the sociology of knowledge tended to remain on the periphery of mainstream sociological thought...

This tradition often aligns with classical functionalism and is associated with several founders of sociology, primarily Herbert Spencer, Lester F. Ward...

themselves as proponents of structural functionalism. Structural functionalism is close to humanistic sociology in its understanding of society as shared...

literally describe a social theory that is "post" traditional structural functionalism. Whereas theorists such as Jeffrey C. Alexander openly appropriated...

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Dramaturgy is a sociological perspective that analyzes micro-sociological accounts of everyday social interactions through the analogy of performativity...

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