Weber's discussion of bureaucracy is generally taken as descriptive of organized social structure within a rational-legal society. This is understandable; yet elsewhere in Weber's sociology he ...

The functionalist tradition of sociology provides useful insights into the presence of serial killers in modern society. In particular, it offers powerful insights into their actions.

30 January 2014 Time: 6:00pm Venue: Room 320, ArtsTwo Building, Mile End Campus This paper addresses the notion of social reproduction from the viewpoint of a unitary theory understanding gender ...

Functional analyses of grammatical phenomena, and the functionalist approaches that promote them, are appealing to those who believe that an integrated view of language structure and language function ...