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This 5 page paper takes the sociological concepts and uses them to explain the college classroom. Both manifest and latent functions are duly noted. No bibliography.
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how they would be useful in examining the classroom. First, it is important to note that symbolic interactionism relies on the meanings that people attach to things and is
unlike functionalism that relies on purportedly objective measures of things. Thus, in looking at how symbolic interactionism would explain structural functional aspects of the classroom, one should look for symbols
and meanings and what students and professors may be thinking or deriving from their roles. In looking at the functionalist approach, one would be able to describe the function
of the classroom and why it is there, but from the perspective of symbolic interactionism, one has to go a step beyond. Still, in looking at things through a symbolic
interactionists perspective, one has to see the merits of functionality. To some in the social sciences, many things can be explored and perhaps even explained through looking at the functions
they serve. Guns serve the function to protect or to allow an individual to lash out at society. A wife serves the function of protector of the children and
keeper of the home. Everything and everybody serves some purpose, and when viewing society in such a detached manner one can glean a bit of wisdom that is attached to
the structural-functionalist school of thought. In looking at the college classroom from the functionalist perspective it becomes clear that the classroom serves the function of educating young people to go
out into the world of work. It also has the function of prompting them to think. Now assuming one has gone through the motions of examining the classroom in such
a way as to describe all of its systems and functions from being a societal safeguard against the unintelligent and uniformed entering the workforce to the function of keeping children
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