Article: Evolution, functionalism, and the study of American ...
Velvet Light Trap;  September 22, 1991 ;     700+ words ... ... historians, period) shun functionalism as a theoretical model ... which is part and parcel of functionalism, has especially come under ... this. For one thing, functional explanations appear to endorse the status ... Another objection to functionalism is that, because of its ...

Dictionary definition: functionalism
Dictionary of the Social Sciences;      700+ words ...functionalism Functionalism and the closely related term structural functionalism form one of the basic orientations to the study of society in twentieth‐century sociology and anthropology . At its simplest, functionalism asserts that ...

Article: [New perspectives on international functionalism]
International Journal;  October 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... approaches to international politics, functionalism has a venerable pedigree. Several ... early phases of European integration, functionalism had its central ideas cherry-picked ... Justin Coopers chapter then places functionalism in the liberal-institutional tradition ...

Article: Darwinian functionalism: a cognitive science paradigm.
The Psychological Record;  March 22, 1994 ;     700+ words ... ... to deduce expectancies. A return to functionalism, in the form of evolutionary psychology ... follows is an exposition of Darwinian functionalism as the elusive paradigm required to ... cognitive psychology". Darwinian Functionalism Even if all the hawks in the world ...

Dictionary definition: structural functionalism
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics;      401 words ...structural functionalism A form of functionalism —developed from the work of the social anthropologist ... The Structure of Social Action )—structural functionalism seeks out the ‘structural’ aspects ...

Dictionary definition: teleo-functionalism
The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy;      307 words ...teleo-functionalism The variety of functionalism that augments it with reference to teleology , usually thought of as analysed by means of reference to natural selection. The leading idea is that we can think of mental states not only in terms ...

Dictionary definition: structural‐functionalism
Dictionary of the Social Sciences;      241 words ...structural‐functionalism See functionalism ; and social structure .