{"id":451593,"date":"2026-03-16T04:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T04:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/blog\/2026\/03\/16\/the-functionalist-perspective-in-sociology-durkheim-and-parsons\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T04:18:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T04:18:00","slug":"the-functionalist-perspective-in-sociology-durkheim-and-parsons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/the-functionalist-perspective-in-sociology-durkheim-and-parsons\/","title":{"rendered":"The Functionalist Perspective in Sociology: Durkheim and Parsons &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He argued that the values of advanced industrial societies were superior to those of traditional societies because modern values allow a society to be more adaptive, whereas traditional values are more likely to prevent change and keep things the way they are.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/revisesociology.com\/2016\/01\/23\/functionalist-theory-sociology\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He argued that the values of advanced industrial societies were superior to those of traditional societies because modern values allow a society to be more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kunsthaus-zurich-en","wpcat-13-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}