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Sees society as a structure with interrelated parts designed to meet the biological and social needs of individuals.

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Structural Functionalism

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Posits that the struggle between social classes, specifically between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, defines economic relations in a capitalist economy.

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Marxism

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Relies on the symbolic meaning that people develop and build upon in the process of social interaction.

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Symbolic Interactionism

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French philosopher who viewed society as made up of building blocks focused towards a common goal.

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Emile Durkheim

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Concerned with how elements of society are functional for social order; introduced five pattern variables.

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Talcott Parsons

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Food, shelter, money, and clothing.

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Basic needs for social order according to Structural Functionalism

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Everything has two sides; capitalism is both an economic and political system.

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Dialectic approach of Marxism

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The most important conceptual building block for analyzing human conduct.

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Symbol in Symbolic Interactionism

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Societies should be examined holistically; social systems are generally in a state of equilibrium.

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Principles of Structural Functionalism

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Labor produces a single or small part of an article for better results.

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Division of labor in capitalism