Dialectic and Functionalism
Toward a Theoretical Synthesis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4864636 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pierre L Van Den Berghe (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1963 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 695 |
| Publication date | 1963-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1224 • E-ISSN: 1939-8271 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2089908 |
| OpenAlex | W2314984808 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 55 |
This paper tries to show that both functionalism and the Hegelian-Marxian dialectic present one-sided, but complementary and reconcilable, views of society. The basic postulates of functionalism and the dialectic reveal strengths and limitations which suggest a reformulation of both approaches in minimal form. Basically, the problem is to arrive at a theory of society that achieves an adequate balance between stability and the various sources of endogenous and exogenous change, between consensus and conflict, and between equilibrium and disequilibrium. After examining Dahrendorf's efforts in that direction, we conclude that convergence and overlap between the two theories show promise of a fruitful synthesis
Dialectic · Epistemology · Functionalism (philosophy of mind · Sociology · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism
Implicaciones del paradigma de conflicto en la evaluación educativa
Funktionale Methode und Systemtheorie
Conflict and Political Violence in Black African States
Identitätsgebrauch in selbstsubstitutiven Ordnungen, besonders Gesellschaften
Diesseits von Stand und Klasse
American Political Science and Tropical Africa Universalism vs. Relativism
Social Structure and Social Theory
Identitätsgebrauch in selbstsubstitutiven Ordnungen, besonders Gesellschaften
Talcott Parsons and the Theory of Action. I. The Structure of the Kantian Core
Theoretical synthesis in sociology
The dialectic ecology of the newspaper
The Pluralist Approach of Pierre Van Den Berghe
The Dysfunctional Dialectics of the Prison
The Tears of St. Anthony
Spatial dimensions of conflict
Evaluating Theories Comparatively / Vergleich und Bewertung von Theorien
Stratum and Class Formation
Marxist Axioms as Self-Contradictory Parsonian Statements in Sociology
Dialectic and structure in Jean-Paul Sartre and Claude Lévi-Strauss
Community psychology
Dialectics, Problematics
Historical systems and social systems
Dialectical Sociology
Forging new syntheses
Flaws in the Structure and Functioning of Functional Analysis
The Functionalist Theory of Change Revisited
Foundational Paradigms of Social Sciences
Organizational Culture
Squaring the Circle
Dialéctica y estructura en la teoría sociológica. La búsqueda de un método lógico
Legislative Influence
The Utility of Pluralism
Ideological and academic polarization
Alternative procedures for macrosociological theorizing
Marxist Dialectic and Pragmatism
Marx's Theory of the Falling Rate of Profit
Methodological Issues in the Study of Development
Theories of the plural society and change in South Africa∗
Ideology in a plural society
Integration and Instability
Ecology and Human Ecology
Race, Gender, and Authority in the Workplace
Existential Sociology
The Current State of Sociological Theory
The Current State of Sociological Theory
Sociology and the Modern Scientific Revolution
Values, Norms, and the Integration of Complex Social Systems
A Conception of Man and Society for Criminology
Parsons as a Symbolic Interactionist
Sociological Theory and the Relativistic Paradigm
Critical Theory and Critical Sociology
Blau's Dialectical Sociology
Negotiating Close Friendship
Colonials, Marginals and Immigrants
Theoretical Integration and Unification
| Unique citing works | 55 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,9 |
| Citation span | 1965 - 2025 (61) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 54 |