TY  - JOUR
AB  - A functionalist framework is used to synthesize well‐known ideas about societal integration and, conversely, disintegration. If the underlying Darwinian metaphor in functional analysis is retained, and supplemented by dialectical metaphors, then functional theorizing can insightfully address the forces of societal disintegration. The emerging theory revolves around, on the structural side, the dynamics of segmentation, differentiation, interdependence and exchange, structural overlap, structural embeddedness, mobility, segregation, and domination whereas on the cultural side, the theory emphasizes the dynamics inhering in systems of evaluational, regulatory, and legitimating symbols as well as generalized symbolic media.
VL  - 16
IS  - 4
SN  - 0144-333X
DO  - 10.1108/eb013248
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb013248
AU  - Turner Jonathan H.
PY  - 1996
Y1  - 1996/01/01
TI  - A MACRO‐LEVEL FUNCTIONAL THEORY OF SOCIETAL DISINTEGRATION
T2  - International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy
PB  - MCB UP Ltd
SP  - 5
EP  - 36
Y2  - 2024/04/19
ER  -