0 based on the principle that the most important thing about an object or building is its use rather than what it looks like: --
From a functionalist perspective, society is regarded as a system.
A functionalist explanation considers an animal's traits acording to their contribution to the animal's survival.
These commercial office blocks share a depressingly functionalist approach to architecture.
a compact, 1930s functionalist building that was once the local bank
Indeed, merging a functionalist-evolutionary perspective with traditional theories of social bias can pave the way for a more integrated social psychology.
The editors' efforts to include both formalist and functionalist perspectives are only partly successful.
The reader looking for bridge-building between "formalist" and "functionalist" approaches to the study of language will not find it here.
Accordingly, identifying the goals and contexts relevant to emotion is a primary task in any theoretical application of the functionalist perspective.
More modern functionalist theories include those propounded by many contemporar y theorists of deliberative democracy.
In fact, the authors claim that "seeing is a way of acting": a statement that could be accepted from a functionalist (if not behaviourist) standpoint.
Because we are guided by a functionalist framework, we do not want to imply that anger, per se, is a "dysfunctional" or maladaptive emotion.
Admittedly, many functionalists would reject this characterization as impossible since many functionalists see rejection of generative theory as a fundamental component of functionalism.
