Functionalist

At the end of his book on Blair's Britain, Chapman has this to say about what we've lost and what we might need to see revived: 'A revival of the idea of functionalist democracy pioneered with the Whitley Report at the end of the First World War, could transform social relationships and participation. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The Cognition and Culture theorists of religion, whom I wrote about last week, have as their main enemies the "functionalist" school who believe religion is not a byproduct but a useful form of social organisation which holds people together as nothing else can. ❋ Unknown (2010)

To be clear, the criticisms I have voiced of Caillois are not at all specifically anthropological ones, they are criticisms from the point of view of social theory generally; that is, there are certain features of arguments that we have come to understand are deeply problematic in a general way across the social sciences, such as functionalist arguments, or totalizing ones. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"The natural world is far from a functionalist utopia," he writes. ❋ Jennie Erin Smith (2011)

What we see in the above images to one or another degree, and with regard to much modern ecclesiastical architecture generally, is a fairly minimalist, functionalist, industrialist type of church, with harsh lines and often dominated by colder materials such as metal, concrete and glass. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Roberts is comfortably on the functionalist (or pragmatist if you prefer) side of that divide. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Finally, and possibly most importantly, what Balkin fails to acknowledge is that when it comes to the law-making procedures, the Court has not historically taken a functionalist approach, but instead has adhered to a very rigorous formalist approach. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But for these and many other reasons, a diverse group of politicians, educators, civil rights advocates and corporate reformers have once again coalesced around the common-core idea and the functionalist ideal that there is or ought to be a common culture, expressed through the school curriculum, tying together the whole country's education system. ❋ Mike Klonsky (2011)

Given its authoritarian and functionalist nature, modernist urbanism was well suited to the new power structure. ❋ Frank Gruber (2011)

The founders hated health insurance reform, and loved violence to enforce only functionalist parliamentary procedures! ❋ Unknown (2010)

You could not mistake their buildings for anyone else's, and this is what sets them apart from modern Sweden's functionalist architectural legacy, which dictated that architecture was not "a vehicle for strong personalities," says Mr. Tham, but a means for improving society. ❋ J. S. Marcus (2011)

Secessionism—now understood as a Viennese variation on Art Nouveau—fell out of favor after World War I, when artists became interested in full-blown modernism, and craftsmen moved on to Art Deco and the functionalist values of the Bauhaus and architectural modernism. ❋ J. S. Marcus (2012)

And given the data that have emerged over the past seven or so years, a functionalist view of genome has robust empirical support. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Architecture for the last 100 years has had this dichotomy where you're either a formalist or a functionalist, but that's bull ----. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This research demonstrates the utility of examining early-in-the-stream social cognition through the functionalist lens of adaptationist thinking. ❋ Unknown (2008)