functionalism
The building's functionalist design owed much to Emberton's assistant George Fairweather.
The interior was designed by the innovative functionalist architect E. G. Asplund.
It was a rather pretentious building for the usually functionalist family.
cheap, functionalist designs devoid of any real complexity
He developed a functionalist analysis of social systems.
The functionalist view of consultancy sees consulting firms as carriers and transmitters of management knowledge.
This argument is largely a functionalist one.

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Both approaches ultimately collapse into functionalist theorizing that do not meaningfully deviate from socially reductionist accounts of policy implementation.
Yet when concepts such as ethnicity, culture and even ' adjustments ' (social, economic, cultural) are employed they are insufficiently theorised, and remain somewhat functionalist in flavour.
We then find that these ' dysfunctionalist ' principles generate the same types of grammars as the functionalist ones.
Indeed, in many ways, a con ceptualistic account can help us to see why functionalist considerations are important.
And by the early 1970s a functionalist opposition to generative grammar was very much in evidence.
Theories of prototypes serve an important role in some functionalist theories, as a descriptive technique and as part of the underlying theory.
There is no denying the functionalist cast of these arguments.
Admittedly, many functionalists would reject this characterization as impossible since many functionalists see rejection of generative theory as a fundamental component of functionalism.
Because we are guided by a functionalist framework, we do not want to imply that anger, per se, is a "dysfunctional" or maladaptive emotion.
In fact, the authors claim that "seeing is a way of acting": a statement that could be accepted from a functionalist (if not behaviourist) standpoint.
More modern functionalist theories include those propounded by many contemporar y theorists of deliberative democracy.
Accordingly, identifying the goals and contexts relevant to emotion is a primary task in any theoretical application of the functionalist perspective.
The reader looking for bridge-building between "formalist" and "functionalist" approaches to the study of language will not find it here.
The editors' efforts to include both formalist and functionalist perspectives are only partly successful.
Indeed, merging a functionalist-evolutionary perspective with traditional theories of social bias can pave the way for a more integrated social psychology.
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