MY THOUGHT ON COLLIN'S FUNCTIONLISM

Collin’s functional perspective focuses on social system as a whole,how they operate,how they change,the social results they produce. For example,family as a social system, organized around cultures,values,norms,such as naturing,schooling the young,providing love and protection for family members and monitor sexual behaviour. But the core focus of functionalist is family is interrelated to social systems and education is determined by economy.


Collins criticizes upon functionalist thinking,and assumes that social life is shaped by groups and individuals who struggle with one another for various resources and rewards. After that it results distribution of wealth,power and prestige in social systems. The conflict thinking shape not only the every day life that interact,but also social,ethnicity and class inequality and relations among nations.Social conflict is based on many different aspects of social life. As Max Waber argues it for a big aspects economic relations as well as race, ethinicity and religion.



Conflict theory of stratification is the social process through which rewards and resources such as wealth, power and prestige are distributed systematically and unequally among social systems. It is based on identifiable social process through which people are divided into social categories such as class, race, and gender. For example ,gender in terms of biological sense, man is different from woman and race, people regard in America, white people are good and black people are bad and class in Indian context, technician are regarded as high strata,and non-technical are consider lower strata.


Sum up: Educational attainment allows more social mobility from lower strata to upper strata. Education is a strong determinant of occupational achievement and status achievement. The class standards in change the living manner , name , accent, style of dress and conversational abilities through educational attainment and then and there conflict arises within societies. Although education is playing a vital in social systems and connected to the ‘ requisites’ of masses for their social mobility and stability that is why schools are emerging in lerger groups.