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Structural Functionalism, Neofunctionalism, and Conflict Theory
Sociological Theory

Chapter 7 Outline


  1. Structural Functionalism
    1. Biographical Sketch: Talcott Parsons
    2. The Functional Theory of Stratification and Its Critics
    3. Talcott Parsons's Structural Functionalism
    4. Biographical Sketch: Robert Merton
    5. Robert Merton's Structural Functionalism
    6. The Major Criticisms
  2. Neofunctionalism
    1. Biographical Sketch: Jeffrey Alexander
  3. Conflict Theory
    1. The Work of Ralf Dahrendorf
    2. The Major Criticisms and Efforts to Deal with Them
    3. A More Integrative Conflict Theory
  4. Summary




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