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Outline and assess the differences and similarities between the Functionalist and Marxist views on how society works.
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Outline and assess the differences and similarities between the Functionalist and Marxist views on how society works. Sociology has been classified as the last in a long line of emerging scientific disciplines, which people have developed and explored in order to make sense of their world. Indeed Comte, who actually invented the term 'sociology', had originally called the subject 'social physics'. Sociology can also be seen as the most complex of all these disciplines, because it attempts to deal with such a broad and flexible subject - what Giddens summarizes as 'human social life, groups and societies.' Early theories such as the positivist approach of Comte, the Functionalist views of Emile Durkheim and the conflict perspectives of Karl Marx have each, in turn, attempted to offer a view of why human beings behave as they do, and how they fit together within societies. Each theoretical approach has to some extent been shaped...
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