ABSTRACT

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|29 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|23 pages

Productive Causality in Functionalism

chapter 3|30 pages

Telecausality in Functionalism