HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL

SCIENCES (HUMSS) STRAND

DISCIPLINES AND
IDEAS IN SOCIAL
SCIENCES (DISS)
What do you see in this picture?
Group Activity:
Class will be grouped into Two (2)

In groups, you are tasked to answer this Guide Questions:

1. What is the picture all about?
2. What will happen to the body if one of the system is
missing? Will it function well? Why?
3. How are we going to relate this concept to our own society?
4. What will happen to our society if one structure is missing
(education/government/religion/family/economy)? Will it
function well? Why?

Group Discussion – 4 Minutes

Group Presentation – 2 Minutes per group
Group Discussion & Group Presentation
Group Discussion & Group Presentation
Class, how do you feel
about the activity?

Did you learn something?

Any new discoveries?

How can we relate the

Human Anatomy to
Society?
DOMINANT APPROACHES
AND IDEAS

STRUCTURAL-
FUNCTIONALISM
 

CODE: HUMSS_DIS 11-IIIE-F-1

What is Structural-Functionalism?

STRUCTURAL-FUNCTIONALISM – AN
APPROACH THAT SEES SOCIETY AS A
COMPLEX SYSTEM WHOSE PARTS WORK
TOGETHER TO PROMOTE SOLIDARITY AND
STABILITY.
IT LOOKS FOR A STRUCTURE’S SOCIAL
FUNCTION.
 It interprets
society as
structure with
interrelated parts.
Structuralism – a method
for analysing language,
narratives, and cultural
phenomena that uncovers
basic elements that form
structures.
 Society – is Societies are
seen as thought to
running functions like
effortlessly like organisms, with
a fit life form, various Social
composed of Institutions
many parts working together
like organs to
concocted in
achieve stability.
large systems.
 GOVERNMENT
BUSINESS PAY USES TAXES
TAXES TO THE TO FUND
GOVERNMENT SCHOOL
SYSTEM

INTERDEPENDENT
RELATIONSHIP
JOB ALLOW SCHOOL
PEOPLE TO EDUCATE SO
SPEND MONEY PEOPLE CAN
TO LOCAL GET JOB
BUSINESS
 
The Functionalists Perspectives

Functionalist Theory – Each aspect of

society depends on each contributes to
the overall stability and functioning of
that society.
The Functionalists Perspectives is
based largely on the works of Herbert
Spencer, Emile Durkheim, Talcott
Parsons and Robert Merton.
 According to functionalism, society is a system of
interconnected parts that work together in harmony to
maintain a state of balance and social equilibrium for
the whole.
Functionalists use the terms FUNCTIONAL
and DYSFUNCTIONAL to describe the
effects of social elements on society.

Social Function Social

– the consequence Dysfunction –
of any social any social pattern
pattern for the that may disrupt
operation of a the operation of
society as a whole. society.
 Sociologists have identified two
types of functions: a. MANIFEST;
and b. LATENT (Merton 1968)
Manifest Latent
Function – the Function – the
recognized and unrecognized and
intended unintended
consequences of consequences of
any social pattern. any social pattern.
Generalization:

1. Class, what 2. Is the

have you learned understanding of
from our lesson? this approached
important? Why?
 Application:
1. DISCUSS THE CONCEPT OF
STRUCTURALISM.
2. DISCUSS MERTON’S CONCEPT OF
MANIFEST AND LATENT FUNCTIONS
AND DYSFUNCTIONS OF
SOCIOCULTURAL PHENOMENA.
Short Quiz:

DEFINE STRUCTURAL-
FUNCTIONALISM BY
RELATING SOCIETY TO A
HUMAN ANATOMY?
ASSIGNMENT:

DEFINE THE FOLLOWING:

 
1. SOCIAL STRUCTURE
2. SOCIAL FUNCTION
Prepared by:

LUISITO B. QUIROG