CRIM 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Talcott Parsons, Manifest And Latent Functions And Dysfunctions, Drug Culture
10 Jul 2017
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Normal because it is prevalent in all societies and societies have it to show what people think is morally acceptable : what is right and wrong. Society is an entity greater than just its individual parts eg. durkhein merton cohlen durkhein said certain amount of crime was normal and found in all societies. Crime and punishment maintained the society"s fundamental values and preserved moral order. Sa)nt-s)mon: saint-simon emphasized moral order, one of first to view society as functional mechanism. Auguste comte: )nvoked an organic analogy, used terms like elements. Even cr)me serves a funct)on: durkheim said a certain amount of crime, crime helped to define, crime and punishment. Talcott parsons: started the concept of (cid:498)structural functionalism(cid:499, pre-eminent sociological paradigm during (cid:857)9(cid:860)(cid:856) and (cid:857)9(cid:861)(cid:856, the structure of social action 1937, the social system (cid:857)9(cid:861)(cid:858) Didn"t take into account how diff society"s operated.
