NURSING EXAM QUESTIONS
SOCIOLOGY
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individuals have free will to shape their own behaviour
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class is the only important division in society
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structure and action are both important to understanding society
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society shapes human behaviour
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Detailed explanation-1: -Functionalism is a structural consensus theory. Functionalists believe there is a social structure made up of institutions which shape individual behaviour. Institutions such as the family and education socialise individuals and create value consensus.
Detailed explanation-2: -In structural functionalism, social change is regarded as an adaptive response to some tension within the social system. When some part of an integrated social system changes, a tension between this and other parts of the system is created, which will be resolved by the adaptive change of the other parts.
Detailed explanation-3: -The sociological perspective, functionalism, developed from the writings of the French sociologist, Emile Durkheim (1858-1917). Emile Durkheim argued that society was like a human body (the organic analogy).