Eamon wrote an essay analyzing the function of various social patterns, including crime, disaster, and war. He explained how these patterns help to keep society operating as a whole operating. Eamon is most closely guided by whose theory of society as a system of functional social patterns?
a. Emile Durkheim
b. Karl Marx
c. Gerhard Lenski
d. Max Weber
Answer: a. Emile Durkheim
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