SOC211H5 Chapter 8: Chapter 8.doc
Document Summary
Eg highways can be engineered with the unintended result that many accidents occur at particular points on it: according to structural functionalism, medical schools produce too many doctors who are all socialized to expect lives of affluence in a major urban areas and the result will be strain, often associated with functionalism is the idea of subcultural solutions to strain, police officer , for example, are often placed in a situation of strain by the expectation that they will serve, protect and control, strain induced deviance may not always be supported by a subculture. Organic and cybernetic models: like a physical organism, every society acts to maintain itself in its environment, according to the organic model, if change occurs in that environment, the society responds adaptively to protect itself or even to improve its well being, talcott parsons shifted from the organic analogy toward a more mechanistic, cybernetic model of society.
