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Sukanya Das, Lovely Professional University  Unit  5:  Approaches to the Study of Kinship: Structural Functional




                           Unit  5:  Approaches to the Study of Kinship:                              Notes

                                       Structural Functional





                     CONTENTS
                     Objectives
                     Introduction
                       5.1   Structural-Functional Approach
                       5.2   History of Structural-Functional Approach

                       5.3  Summary
                       5.4  Keywords
                       5.5   Review Questions

                       5.6   Further Readings


                  Objectives
                  After studying this unit, students will be able to:
                  	•  Study the structural-functional approach of kinship study.
                  	•  Investigate the functional approach of Comte, Spensor and Durkheem.


                  Introduction
                  Approach is a way, entry path, route or access which controls, directs and conducts the study
                  system, its recognition and propounding of principles. According to perspective approach sub-
                  ject inspection, fact compilation, classification, is system of simplification or formation of princi-
                  ple. This is a type of entry path or way by which an event is seen, inspected, testified according
                  to perspective or view point and conclusions are derived. Approach is a system which is used
                  to clarify or study the aims and problems. Approaches are the steps of the process of scientific
                  study system with the help of which a scientist advances in a definite direction to understand an
                  event, to obtain his aim. He propounds theory according to perspective.

                  5.1  Structural-Functional Approach

                  This approach is the most important and popular functional approach in sociology. Accord-
                  ing to Kingsley Davis, today this approach is spread over the three-fourth of the sociology. It
                  is known with many names in sociology such as—Structural functional Approach, Functional
                  Approach, Functional Analysis, Functional Theory, Functional Oventation and today the most
                  popular and brief name—Functionalism and it has an important place in study of kinship—
                  It is a system of study, approach of study and principle all the three. In sociology, scholars
                  had inspected it according to these three forms. Kingsley Davis had said even that percep-
                  tion, approach, systems of study, recognitions, problems and limitations of both-sociology and
                  functional analysis are the same and there is no difference between them. Functional analysis



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