Causation and functionalism in sociology /

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Main Author: Isajiw, Wsevolod W
Format: Government Document Book
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge & K. Paul, 1968
Series:International library of sociology and social reconstruction (Routledge & Kegan Paul)
Subjects:
Sociology
Causation > Philosophy
Functionalism (Social sciences)
Funktionalismus
Sociology > Philosophy
Soziologie
Wissenschaftstheorie
sociology
Causale modellen
Sociologie
Theorievorming
Table of Contents:
  • PREFACE
  • I INTRODUCTION: General Statement of the Causal Problem in Functionalism
  • Meaning of Causality
  • Aim, Procedure and Definition of Functionalism
  • The Problem of Scientific Explanation in Sociology
  • II PRODUCTIVE CAUSALITY IN FUNCTIONALISM: The Problem of Productive Causality in Parsons' Critique of Max Weber
  • 'Intercausality' in Functionalism
  • Productively Causal Characteristics in Functionalism
  • Logical Formulation of the Principle of Productive Causality
  • III TELECAUSALITY IN FUNCTIONALISM: Critique of Merton's Distinction Between the Manifest and the Latent FunctionsCritique of Merton's Definition of the Concept of Function
  • The Concept of Function: Its Significance in the Social System Model
  • Relation to the Future: Model of a Self-Regulating System as Explanatory Device
  • Telecausal Characteristics in Functionalism
  • Formulation of the Principle of Telecausality
  • The Question of Teleology in Functionalist Literature
  • IV TALCOTT PARSONS' MEANS-ENDS SCHEMA OF FUNCTIONAL EXPLANATION: System-System Interaction Analysis: Parsons' Macrofunctionalism
  • Ego-Alter Interaction Analysis: Parsons' Microfunctionalism
  • V THE EXPLANATORY IMPORT OF FUNCTIONALISM: The Explanatory Value of Functionalism
  • George C. Homans' Critique of Functionalism
  • The Use of Organismic Model
  • Evaluation of the Common Objections to Telecausality
  • The Question of Reduction of Telecausality to Productive Causality: Ernest Nagel's Argument

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