Fight Night round 12 FunctionalismVsMarxism

To disprove Mrs. Basi's theory, our blog topic for this week is Which sociological theory has
withstood and will continue to withstand our rapidly changing society:
Functionalism or Marxism? In my opinion, functionalism wins this fight. It is defined as a sociological perspective which emphasizes the functional importance of institutions in society, and their role in maintaining a value consensus which leads to continuity in that society. We in the U.S basically live in a functionalist society, where different institutions play different fundamentally important roles, to help our society strive.



Marxism on the other hand is defined as a sociological perspective, written by Karl Marx, focusing on his division of society into an economic base and superstructure,and the analysis of class conflict as the main source of social change. While this theory may possibly still exist in certain countries, in the majority of the world, it's dead, has been dead for a while now. The closest example that smells remotely like class conflict pushing for social change recently in the U.S is the Wall Street debacle, and that can't really be classified as Marxism. So now you tell me, who the clear winner of this fight is.