Define deviance and dysfunction and explain how it relates to Parsons’s body of work.
What will be an ideal response?
Deviance occurs when the values of a society are out of sync with the means available for achieving them. Émile Durkheim first emphasized that while positive social changes, such as periods of economic prosperity, might alleviate certain problems, they may also produce significant unanticipated negative consequences. Merton not only elaborated on Durkheim’s point that positive social institutions (or changes) may have unintended negative consequences; he went on to show that negative (or benign) social institutions (or social changes) might have unanticipated positive consequences as well. But it is for highlighting the “negative” unintended consequences and dysfunctions that Merton is most known. Significantly, the concept of dysfunction is not incompatible with the functionalist metaphor of the body. Merton points out, laws, social policies, norms, values, religions, and the like can all produce unintended consequences and dysfunctions. Similarly, Merton made a significant contribution to role theory by demonstrating that “social status” and “role-sets” are organized in the social structure in a more complex way than Parsons initially supposed.
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