Alfred Herbert Radcliffe-Brown Understanding Of The...

For this sociology class assignment is to present my understanding of three historical sociological paradigms by using three contemporary sociological theorists of color. The three major Sociological Paradigms are Structural Functionalism, Social Conflict, and Symbolic Interactionist. The Structural Functionalism sociological theorist that I will be focusing on will be Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown, a British sociologist. The Social Conflict theorist will be Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf, a German sociologist. And for Symbolic Interactionist sociological theorist will be Herbert George Blumer, an American sociologist. Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown was born in Birmingham, United Kingdom, on January 17, 1881. He was a British social†¦show more content†¦Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf was born in Hamburg, Germany, on May 1, 1929. He was a German-born British academic and politician who served as the first foreign director of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Karl Marx greatly influence on his work. A desire strongly motivated him to develop a viable alternative to structural-functionalism. Dahrendorf see two basic sides to society – consensus and conflict - and believe that both are needed. Dahrendorf offers a very sociological view of authority, arguing that it resides not in individuals but in positions and in various associations of people. In his view, those associations are controlled by a hierarchy of authority positions and the people who occupy them. However, there are many such associations in any society. Thus, a person may be in authority in one type of association but be subordinate in many others. Ralf Dahrendorf conducted his social conflict research through qualitative method. His work deals primarily to macro-level types of analysis that focuses on society. The work that he has done are all involves studies done in natural settings that produce in-depth descriptive information about the social world. Hebert George Blumer was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on March 7, 1900. He was an American contemporary sociologist