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    Neofunctionalism aims to extend structural functionalism by addressing its limitations, while retaining its core theoretical aspects. It views society as composed of interrelating elements that form patterns of social order. Neofunctionalism equally considers both social action and order, recognizes deviance and social control within social systems, and accepts Parsonian emphases on personality, culture and social systems. It also focuses on social change through differentiation within social, cultural and personality systems. However, neofunctionalism remains more of a tendency than a fully developed theory.

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    Neofunctionalism aims to extend structural functionalism by addressing its limitations, while retaining its core theoretical aspects. It views society as composed of interrelating elements that form patterns of social order. Neofunctionalism equally considers both social action and order, recognizes deviance and social control within social systems, and accepts Parsonian emphases on personality, culture and social systems. It also focuses on social change through differentiation within social, cultural and personality systems. However, neofunctionalism remains more of a tendency than a fully developed theory.

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    Neofunctionalism aims to extend structural functionalism by addressing its limitations, while retaining its core theoretical aspects. It views society as composed of interrelating elements that form patterns of social order. Neofunctionalism equally considers both social action and order, recognizes deviance and social control within social systems, and accepts Parsonian emphases on personality, culture and social systems. It also focuses on social change through differentiation within social, cultural and personality systems. However, neofunctionalism remains more of a tendency than a fully developed theory.

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    NEO FUNCTIONALISM

    NEO FUNCTIONALISM
     The term neofunctionalism was used to indicate continuity
    with structural functionalism but also to demonstrate that an
    effort was being made to extend structural functionalism and
    overcome its major difficulties.

     Jeffrey Alexander and Paul Colomy define neofunctionalism


    as “a self-critical strand of functional theory what seeks to
    broaden functionalism’s intellectual scope while retaining its
    theoretical core”
     Interrelationship of major domains of social world.

     All about social and personality system.

     Can be viewed as an effort to recapture such


    orientation.
     Alexander -1985, enumerated the problems associated with
    structural functionalism including “anti-individualism,, “antagonism”
    to change,” “convservatism,” “idealism,” and anti-emirical bias”.

     Despite his enthusiasm for neofunctionalism, in the mid-1980s


    Alexander was forced to conclude that “neofunctionalism is a
    tendency rather than a developed theory” (1985a:16). After
    Alexander’s confession of the weakness of neofunctionalism and
    argued that it had already made enormous strides.

     It
    has become a field of intense theoretical discourse and growing
    empirical investigation.
     First, neofunctionalism operates with a descriptive model of society that sees society
    composed of elements which, in interaction with one another form a pattern.
     Second, Alexander argues the neofunctionalism devotes roughly equal attention to action
    and order.
     Third, neofunctionalism retains the structural-functional interest in integration, not as an
    accomplished fact but rather as a social posibility! It recognized that deviance and social
    control are realities within the social system.
     Fourth, neofunctionalism accepts the traditional Parsonian emphasis on personality, culture,
    and social system.
     Fifth, neofunctionalism focuses on social change in the process of differentiation within the
    social, cultural and personality systems.
     Finally, Alexander argues that neofunctionalism “implies the commitment to the
    independence of conceptualization and theorizing from other levels of sociological analysis.
     Colomy (1986) has defealt more specifically with a revised structural functional
    theory of change . He argues that the structural-functional theory of change
    (“differentation theory”)

    Parasonian theory has three basic weaknesses.


    First, it is highly abstract and lacks empirical and historical specificity.
    Second, it does not devote enough attention to concrete groups and social processes
    or to power and conflict.
    Third, it overemphasizes the integration produced by structural change.

     Colomy and Rhoades-1994 have argued that differentaition theory needs to


    move in yet another integrative direction.
    Micro bias and Micro corrective
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