functionalism

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• The theory of functionalism emphasizes how mental processes help individuals adapt to their environment.

• His message throughout the series was clear: "Functionalism with a capital 'F'" was dead; long live functionalism, with a small "f" and a basis in real science.

  Academic text (2003)

• I have long thought that where functionalism is the correct orientation for technical systems design, it is not for social systems.

  Blog text (22)

• His message throughout the series was clear: "Functionalism with a capital 'F'" was dead; long live functionalism, with a small "f" and a basis in real science.

  Academic text (2003)

• Functionalism, in contrast, is concerned with whether the arrived-at balance of power results in a workable government.

  Academic text (2017)

• Structural-functionalism ignores conflict and produces ethnocentric theory.

  Academic text (1995)

• However, functionalism evokes function for social phenomena without making clear who gave them this function; does it arise from a transcendent harmony supposedly existing in Nature and even in Society?

  Academic text (2000)

• Many researchers apply this norm, partly because other theories related to personality development (such as structural functionalism, social learning, and symbolic interactionism) are also based on the presence of two parents of different sexes.

  Academic text (1997)

• What's generally taken to have happened is that behaviorism was succeeded by functionalism, the view that mental states arise from the functioning of a system—most often seen as a computational system.

  Blog text (15)

• As our only grand scientific theory for understanding nature, evolutionary theory does not compete with scholarly constructs such as psychoanalytic theories, materialism, or functionalism; in fact, it may encompass some of their main insights within a comprehensive interpretative framework.

  Academic text (2000)

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