functionalist

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• But I think the main argument against a functionalist view of consciousness is that the nature of consciousness looks to be something more biological.

• I am not undertaking a critique of functionalist arguments per se.

  Academic text (1997)

• There is nothing particularly original about the functionalist conception of morality.

  Academic text (2000)

• Functionalist perspective: The organic imagery of the "body" is a classical functionalist account of a social "body."

  Academic text (2005)

• Merton, as a functionalist, did not see change as a central process of human and systems theory.

  Academic text (2007)

• Instead, Richter's definition, as we shall see, is a functionalist one.

  Academic text (2003)

• Merton's work as a functionalist moves social science theory beyond mere personality theory.

  Academic text (2007)

• Generally speaking, functionalists direct their attention to the order inherent in societies.

  Academic text (2005)

• The first is the functionalist perspective of illness and conceptualizes disability as a problem of individual functioning.

  Academic text (2004)

• Initially, it was particularly the younger Durkheim, the functionalist Durkheim who had such an extraordinary impact.

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