Functionalism is a theory that sees society as being a system of parts and they link society to the human body. The body being the society and the body parts institutions within the society, family being one. Functionalist also believes that the society and humans have certain simple needs that are essential to be met for humans and society to survive. They need the social institutions to meet their simple basic needs and therefore a social institution for it to be well-designed to survive as a whole. Functionalist believes institutions are important as they help maintain social orders which are no anarchy or riots and social cohesion which is a whole society no divide between groups. However, different sociologists have different views....
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