FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS IN SOCIOLOGY.
To judge something as functional or dysfunctional is to evaluate rather than explain. This evaluation, however, amounts to objective measurement of the dynamic properties of the system concerned. Stability, adaptive change and integration can be considered the three major dimensions of such measurem...
| Published in: | American Sociological Review Vol. 28; no. 1; pp. 5 - 14 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Feb63
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