Functionalist

Therefore, we must not give in to the functionalist temptation to apply rapid and drastic solutions, moved by false compassion or by mere criteria of efficiency or cost effectiveness," the Catholic News Agency reported Francis saying.

Brno is home to a functionalist Synagogue and the largest Jewish cemetery in Moravia.

Conversely, Julian Steward and Roy Rappaport 's theories of cultural ecology are sometimes credited with shifting the functionalist-oriented anthropology of the 1950s and 1960s and incorporating ecology and environment into ethnographic study.

Darwin's work inspired William James 's functionalist approach to psychology.

From the intellectualist and functionalist perspectives, magic is often considered most analogous to science and technology.

Functionalist approaches to grammar.

Graphic symbols are often functionalist and anonymous, citation as these pictographs from the US National Park Service illustrate.

He joined the avant-garde Bauhaus design school as their director of architecture, adopting and developing their functionalist application of simple geometric forms in the design of useful objects.

In the functionalist perspective, magic performs a latent function in the society.

Macfarlane 1970 p. 130; also Appendix 2. ) Theories Anthropological and psychological origins Definitions of relevant terminology The foremost perspectives on magic in anthropology are functionalist, symbolist, and intellectualist.

Parsons in particular imparted to Weber's works a functionalist, teleological perspective; this personal interpretation has been criticised for a latent conservatism.

Sociology For Talcott Parsons of the functionalist school, norms dictate the interactions of people in all social encounters.

The Prague School and North American functionalist approaches to syntax.

There are many different formalist and functionalist frameworks that propose theories for describing syntactic structures, based on different assumptions about what language is and how it should be described.

The rebels have stopped the strip as a demonstration to encourage their fellow technicians around the country to rebel against the Cadets, and start the Functionalist Revolution.

Two older approaches to globalization include modernization theory, a functionalist derivative, and world systems theory, a Marxist approach.