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DIFFERENT VIEWS ON HOW SOCIETY WORKS This is the most difficult part of sociology, but if you have been studying sociology for some time now, you will at least be partly familiar with these two different views: Marxism and functionalism. They often see society in different ways because they start from different standpoints. For example, if you and I were both looking at, and discussing the same chair, you might see it as something you sit down on to do your schoolwork, whereas I see it as missile to throw at children. In the same way, Marxists and functionalists look at the same institutions in society (such as the education system) and come to different conclusions about its function for society. FUNCTIONALISM Functionalists are called functionalists because they always ask, "What function does (the education system or the family etc) perform for society?" Functionalists share similar assumptions about how society works. For example, ...

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