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Structural Functionalism is one of these social theories that try to understand why society works by focusing on the relations between different social institutions that society should be built.
Functionalism emphasizes how various social institutions work together to meet the needs of society.
Structural-functional theory, also called functionalism, sees society as a structure with interrelated parts designed to meet the biological and social needs of the individuals in that society.

Structural-functionalism's core concepts are, in harness, structure, and system.
Under the auspices of Radcliffe-Brown (1881–1955), it emerged as a clear-cut alternative to hybrid Boasian functionalism and successor to Malinowski's particular brand of economism and radical individualism.
It derived not from German and British precursors but mainly from Durkheimian French sociology with supplementary insights from the Russian geographer and anarchist, Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921).

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