Functionalism Quotes

“The magnificent title of the Functional School of Anthropology has been bestowed on myself, in a way on myself, and to a large extent out of my own sense of irresponsibility.”

“The great merit of functionalism is that it does get you away from the museum case classification of culture traits and gets you to thinking about the inter-connexion of things.”

“A house is a machine for living in.”

“Every social system has four functional problems to solve: adaptation, goal attainment, integration, and latency (pattern maintenance).”