Talcott Parsons's Functionalist View of Society as Tending Toward a State

question 28

Multiple Choice

Talcott Parsons's functionalist view of society as tending toward a state of stability or balance is known as

• A)the emergent-norm perspective.
• B)resource mobilization theory.
• C)stagnancy theory.
• D)the equilibrium model.

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