Chapter Outline

I. Structural Functionalism

1. Structural Functionalism
   1. Structures
   2. Functions
   3. Societal Functionalism
2. Functional Theory of Stratification
   1. Social Stratification
3. Talcott Parsons's Structural Functionalism
   1. Adaptation
   2. Goal Attainment
   3. Integration
   4. Latency/Pattern Maintenance
   5. Behavioral Organism
   6. Personality System
   7. Social System
      1. status
      2. role
      3. need-dispositions
      4. society
      5. economy
      6. polity
      7. fiduciary system
      8. societal community
   8. Cultural System
   9. Biographic Vignette: Talcott Parsons
4. Robert Merton's Structural Functionalism
   1. Middle-Range Theories
   2. Functions
   3. Dysfunctions
   4. Nonfunctions
   5. Autobiographical Vignette: Robert K. Merton
   6. Net Balance
   7. Levels of Functional Analysis
   8. Manifest Functions
   9. Latent Functions
   10. Unanticipated Consequences
   11. Key Concept: Anomie
   12. Debunking

II. Conflict Theory

1. Work of Ralf Dahrendorf
   1. Imperatively Coordinated Associations
   2. Latent Interests
   3. Manifest Interests
   4. Quasi Group
   5. Interest Group
   6. Conflict Group
   7. Lumpenproletariat

III. General Systems Theory

1. Niklas Luhmann's System Theory
   1. Autopoietic Systems
   2. Differentiation
   3. Evolution
   4. Segmentary Differentiation
   5. Stratificatory Differentiation
   6. Center-Periphery Differentiation
   7. Functional Differentiation
   8. Code

IV. Feminist Portrait of the Macro-Social Order

1. Gender Oppression
   1. Ideology

V. Summary

VI. Suggested Readings