What Is The Structural-Functional Perspective Of College?

SOC R100
Karen McPherson
26 January 2014
Scrapbook One The act of seeking higher education has become more and more necessary for the average American to acquire a stable job in the work force. Likewise, the men and women applying to become collegiate students have in turn drastically increased, which reinforces the importance of higher education in American society. As a whole, college can be analyzed through three sociological perspectives which include the structural-functional, social-conflict, and symbolic-interaction approaches. Moreover, the structural-functional approach is the best perspective that can be utilized to analyze college because every aspect is based on a purpose to change society through education.
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What is more, the structural-functional approach shows society as a relatively stable system of interrelated parts that keep society operating in an orderly way while members generally agree on the morality (Sociology 22). By analyzing college through this perspective, college can be seen as a stable educational system which operates by way of cohesive parts which include the administration, faculty, and students who all take on respective responsibilities. Certainly, all parts of college work together to keep society operating in an orderly way by providing students with an education in order to strengthen the US workforce. Additionally members of the college system collectively believe the pursuit of higher education is important and morally right because by attaining a higher education, personal improvement and overall societal improvement is likely to be