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Critically evaluate Functionalist approaches to crime and deviance - Illustrate your answer with reference to the sub-cultural explanations of juvenile delinquency.
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Critically evaluate Functionalist approaches to crime and deviance. Illustrate your answer with reference to the sub-cultural explanations of juvenile delinquency. Functionalism sees the various parts of society to be interrelated, and together they form a complete system. To understand any part of a society, the parts must be seen in relation to society as a whole. Functionalists see behaviour in society to be structured. This means that relationships between members of society are organised in terms of rules. Society is based upon a value consensus that provides guidelines for behaviour that are translated into more specific directives in terms of roles and norms. They see society as having a need for functional pre requisites that need to be met in order for the society to survive. Functionalists look at all societies and say in every, past or present, deviance has always been present. This deviance isn't of interest to sociologists, therefore...
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