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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Definitions:

Empirical Rule

A statistical norm indicating that in a normal distribution, the vast majority of data points lie within a range of three standard deviations from the mean.

Tchebysheff's Theorem

A theorem that provides a minimum bound on the proportion of values that lie within a certain number of standard deviations from the mean for any distribution.

Empirical Rule

The rule in statistics where for any normal distribution, practically all of the data is expected to be within three standard deviations from the mean value.

Empirical Rule

A statistical principle that asserts in a normal distribution, almost all data points are contained within three standard deviations from the average.