The major principles of functionlist are:
- Emphasizes on the importance of adequate socialization and
integration for a strong society.
- Social institutions play an important role in stabilizing a
society.
- Favors a slow social change for
maintaining the balance and order in the society.
Explanation of social problem by the
functionality:
- Functionalist view social problem
as weakening agent of the stablity of the society, but do not
attribute it as a the structural fault of society.
- Functionalist view social problems
as those agents that would bring social reforms but the only
criteria is that it should be a gradual social reform than an
abrupt one that would threaten the social order.
The major principles of conflict
theory are:
- Conflicts view society as being
divided into classes and this division creates inequality in the
society.
- The division of society is based on
socio-cultural background as race, socio-economic background as
rich and poor,and gender as male and female.
- The conflict arises when the
dominant opress the feeble or the minority.
Explanation of social problem by the
conflict theorists:
- Conflict theorists view social
problems as the faults of fundamental structures of the
society.
- Inequality give rise to class
conflict, and it reinforces social problems in the society.
- Advocates a rapid social change
that has far reaching impacts.
Symbolic theory- major
principles
- People understand about their roles
in the society through the social interaction with each other.
- They understand themselves and
about the world around them through the social interaction,that
occurs in the form of verbal and non-verbal communication.
Explanation of social problems
- According to symbolic
interactionism social problems arises when individuals through
their interactions assume negative roles in the society.
- These roles are taken up either by
imitating others or by taking up the problematic perceptions of
others.