Practice question · True or false
Parsons’s functionalism contains no account of social change, because a system in equilibrium cannot by definition change.
Hints
- Ask whether Parsons wrote anything after The Social System.
- Differentiation and evolutionary universals are his own vocabulary.
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False
Why
False, though the criticism has a real target. Parsons wrote extensively on differentiation and on evolutionary universals in the 1960s. The defensible complaint is about weight and ease: change enters his scheme as a strain to be reabsorbed, and conflict is harder to state in it than integration is.
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