Structural Functionalism
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Structural functionalism treats society as a system of interdependent parts, each doing work that keeps the whole stable and functioning.
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Schools, families, and courts each supply something the society needs; disturb one and the others take the strain.
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Explaining what a part does never establishes that it should exist, or that it does the work well.
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