In the 1980s, Jeffrey Alexander relaxed this perspective's traditional assumptions to develop a "neo" version of it.
In the 1980s, Jeffrey Alexander relaxed this perspective's traditional assumptions to develop a "neo" version of it. Gabriel Almond adapted this perspective to political science in order to compare different political systems. An influential version of this perspective analyzed systems using five pairs of "pattern variables" such as "diffuseness and specificity" and "ascription and achievement." An essay by Kingsley Davis and Wilbur Moore used this perspective to propose a positive model of social stratification. This perspective dominated American sociology from the 1930s to the 1970s in part because it was supported by the theories of Robert Merton and Talcott Parsons. It considers society to be a biological organism consisting of interrelated parts. For 10 points, name this major macro-level sociological paradigm, one of the three dominant perspectives of sociology along with conflict theory and symbolic interactionism.
In the 1980s, Jeffrey Alexander relaxed this perspective's traditional assumptions to develop a "neo" version of it.
structural functionalism [or word forms of function]