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"Outline and assess the usefulness of the analogy between Society and a Biological organism." One set of sociologist that use the Biological or Organic analogy of societies are the Functionalists. Functionalism first emerged in Europe in the 19th Century. The French sociologist Emile Durkheim was the most influential of all the early functionalists. The theory became the dominant theoretical perspective in the 1940's and 1950. The functionalist theory is that within society there are many small parts that have to work together to maintain the society. I will be assessing how useful this analogy is to show the likeness between society and a biological organism. The functionalists argue that society can be described by using the biological analogy as a model. The key points can be summarized by a comparison drawn from biology. If biologists wanted to know how an organism such as the human body worked, they might begin by examining...

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