1st Edition

Causation and Functionalism in Sociology

By Wsevolod W. Isajiw Copyright 1968
    166 Pages
    by Routledge

    166 Pages
    by Routledge

    This is Volume I of twenty-two in the Social Theory and Methodology series. First published in 1968 this text looks at an analysis of functionalism by means of the notion of causality. It is a study of functionalism, yet also an explication of the notion of causality through its application to a sociological theory.

    Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION; Chapter 2 PRODUCTIVE CAUSALITY IN FUNCTIONALISM; Chapter 3 TELECAUSALITY IN FUNCTIONALISM; Chapter 4 TALCOTT PARSONS’ MEANS-ENDS SCHEMA OF FUNCTIONAL EXPLANATION; Chapter 5 THE EXPLANATORY IMPORT OF FUNCTIONALISM: OBJECTIONS AND EVALUATION;

    Biography

    Wsevolod W. Isajiw