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What are Morton’s 3 criticisms of Parsons assumptions?

  • Indispensability

  • Functional unity

  • Universal functionalism

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What did Merton argue about indispensability?

  • Not all institutions are functionally indispensable and there are functional alternatives

  • E.g. family not the only institutions that can perform primary socialisation

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What did Merton argue about functional unity?

  • Not all institutions are as tightly linked as Parsons suggests

  • Some institutions are far removed from each other

  • E.g. rules of banking and education

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What did Merton argue about universal functionalism?

  • Not all the institutions in society perform a positive function for society > some are dysfunctional

  • E.g. DV family dysfunction

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What’s a manifest function?

  • Intended function of a social institution

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What’s a latent function?

  • Unintended function of a social institution