With this, the Age of Symbolism comes to an end. The new vision will be “value for money,” or rewarding those who contribute and giving nothing to anyone who does not. The Age of Functionalism dawns ...

If I wanted to be controversial, as a sociologist, I might say that serial murder is “functional” for society. However, a less inflammatory way to say the same thing is that serial murder can be ...

As an explanation of organizational growth at the international level, functionalism postulates that people who become personally involved in the activities of international agencies will develop ...

European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie / Europäisches Archiv für Soziologie, Vol. 46, No. 2 (2005), pp. 213-262 (50 pages) On cherche à tester sur un cas historique ...

For some time now, in this column, I have been arguing that we as a society have culturally constructed the serial killer as an evil monster in our factual as well as fictional accounts of him. I ...

The discipline and practice of education has largely been circumscribed within discussions privileging its role and importance in the growth and development of a country’s social and economic status.