13. PositivismReduced biasness Prior to Comte’s time religious paradigms predominated in describing societyDarwinismSurvival of the fittestAutonomy and growth.Organisms adapt to their environments through processes at phylogenetic (chiefly Darwinian natural selection)EthnomethodologyEveryone is acting like a social scientistNo significant growthbehaviour is evidence of underlying schemes,
14. FunctionalismSocial system is made up of partsEach part contributes the functioning of wholeFocus on collective rightsFeminismSocial system is made up of partsOnly some or one part is contributed by the society(gender discrimination)Focus on individual rights