The Functionalist Paradigm Went Largely Unchallenged in the United States

question 43

Multiple Choice

The functionalist paradigm went largely unchallenged in the United States until about the 1950s.C.Wright Mills criticized Talcott Parsons for:

• A) spending too much time on the negative aspects of society.
• B) supporting the dominant class structure and the inequalities associated with it.
• C) addressing only the inequalities of classes.
• D) focusing on small-scale personal interactions and not the "whole picture."

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