Augustus comte - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

structural functionalism theory - focuses on organization of society and the relationships between broad social units (institutions) - group is a unit of analysis - allows major institutions such as economy, religion, polity, education and family to be considered groups background and history - early functionalists were anthropologists (Levi Strauss, Radcliffe-Brown etc) - seminal thinkers of the 1800s who made direct observations of primitive cultures theory of early function...