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Question One
Introduction
The structural functionalist and the conflict perspectives are two well-known approaches
when it comes to sociological analysis. They are perspectives that can highly be applied on
different aspects as the means to aid us to understand the society, for example, culture and
socialization, deviance as well as social control and so forth. The following paragraphs revolve
around comparing and contrasting these two perspectives of the family.
Functionalist and Conflict Perspectives
The structural functionalist perspective refers to society as a system made up of
interconnected parts functioning together with the sole intention of creating a harmonious, stable
society. This is to say that each system institution, for instance, church, economics, family,
education, and others add to the equilibrium of the whole system. It is proper to note that there
may be dysfunction within this functionalist social system. A dysfunctional system, for example,
crime may be termed as functional in the sense that it heightens awareness of the shared values
as well as shared bonds within society (Kenkel 1966). It is also worth noting that functions as far
as this perspective is concerned may be of two types; manifest and latent. When talking about
manifest functions, these are the ones that were planned as well as intended while latent

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functions focus on the ones that are unintended or even hidden. An excellent example in a
society is an economy with a manifest function when it comes to organizing tasks, goods and
also capital and a latent function that highly describes the distribution of wealth.
On the other hand, the conflict perspective opposes the structural functionalist
perspective in the sense that it views or describes society as a system wherein different sectors
compete for power as well as resources, and this occurs in such a way that one set of groups and
interest to a great extent dominate other sets of groups and interests. Based on this perspective,
the fact that commodities and resources are limited always keeps the various classes we have in
the society at odds with each other (Frey 503-522). It is because of this fact that a conflict
theorist would argue that acquiring quality education broade...