Unlike behaviorism, functionalism focuses on what the brain does and where brain function happens. [16] However, functionalism is not interested in how something works or if it is made of the same ...

This paper makes a strategic return to an earlier sociological era as a way of charting where we have been and where we are heading. Specifically, it returns to the debate over functionalism as ...

A critique of the moderating approach to functionalism taken by Merton in his essay on "Manifest and Latent Functions" is presented. The focus is on the alternatives proposed by Merton to the ...