SOC 468 Theory II
Instructions: Answer the following topics below. No specific format required.
3 paged, 12 point singled or doubled spaced would be good.
4. List, define, and briefly discuss the five role-adaptations to the U.S.’s cultural and social structures according to R.K. Merton. (50 points)
7. List and briefly discuss a. “the [two] basic and irreducible functions of the family” and b. “the conditions under which effective [primary] socialization can take place”, according to T. Parsons (75 points)
8. List, define and briefly discuss the pattern-variables, according to T. Parsons (and collaborators). (75 points)
9. List and briefly discuss a. the sources of structural change in social systems, b. what the structure of social systems consists in, and c. what structural change in and of social systems entails, according to T. Parsons (75 points)
13. List, define, and briefly discuss “the [four] essential functional imperatives of any system of action, and hence of any social system”, according to T. Parsons. (75 points)
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