NURSING EXAM QUESTIONS
SOCIOLOGY
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society is like a human body
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value consensus is essential to social order
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in complex modern society, there is not functional unity
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there are 4 functional prerequisites necessary for society
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Detailed explanation-1: -Talcott Parsons viewed society as a system. He argued that any social system has four basic functional prerequisites: adaptation, goal attainment, integration and pattern maintenance. These can be seen as problems that society must solve if it is to survive.
Detailed explanation-2: -Within this social system, Parsons considered the needs of the system as important, and individuals fulfilled certain system functions by taking on various roles as means of carrying out the function of their statuses. Individuals are discussed by Parsons as carrying out actions that maintain order in the system.
Detailed explanation-3: -We draw them in terms of the four primary functions which we impute to all systems of action, namely pattern-maintenance, integration, goal-attainment, and adaptation.