This study examines the functionalist approach to international relations, focusing on the proposed relationship between experience in international organizations and attitude change of the ...

From a functionalist perspective, the social construction of the serial killer identity is symbolic and it helps to clarify the moral boundary that separates good and evil in society.

This is the first of a two-part article that examines both structural and processural paradigms of social theory. This argues ...

Carroll Quigley’s The Evolution of Civilizations (1961) adopted structural-functionalist approach, arguing that changes in social institutions drive historical change and that civilizations go through ...

From a functionalist perspective, therefore, the horrors perpetrated by the serial killer enable society to consider both the source and limitations of its own violent tendencies.

Enrico Terrone, Twofileness. A Functionalist Approach to Fictional Characters and Mental Files, Erkenntnis (1975-), Vol. 86, No. 1 (February 2021), pp. 129-147 ...