AQA GCSE Sociology · 8192
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An approach used to explain and interpret social life.
Revise: Family roles and sociological perspectivesA theoretical perspective is an approach used to explain social life. Functionalism asks how institutions such as families contribute to social order and stability. It is a consensus approach: it emphasises cooperation and shared norms and values, or value consensus.
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An approach to explaining society and its institutions, such as functionalism, Marxism or interactionism.