Can anyone think of any more shortcoming of functionalism?

有没有人考虑更多的职的缺点？

Today, I would like to discuss some of the weak points of the theory of functionalism.

今天，我要讨一些这个职理中差的观点。

And this brings us to one of the problems with structural functionalism.

这里我们要指出结构功的一个缺陷。

Let’s start with structural functionalism, which originated with a French sociologist named Emile Durkheim.

我们先从结构功起，结构功源于法国社艾弥尔·涂尔干。

Structural functionalism focuses on how large structures fit together, and conflict theory looks at how society defines sources of inequality and conflict.

结构功聚焦于社结构的协调整合，社冲突着眼于社不公和冲突的根源。

In contrast to structural functionalism, conflict theories imagine society as being composed of different groups that struggle over scarce resources – like power, money, land, food, or status.

与结构功不同，社冲突将社看作各个不同利益体的组合。这些利益体互相争夺稀缺资源，比如权力，金钱，土地，食物，或地位。

Such homuncular functionalism (as the approach is known in AI circles) replaces the infinite regress with a finite one that terminates at tasks so dull and simple that they can be done by machines.

这样，这种侏儒技主义（在人工智领域）就用有限回归代替了原来的无限回归，而这种有限回归够在任务变得非常单调又非常简单以至于只需机器就可以完成的时候自动停止。

Now that we understand a little more about the different scales that sociology works on, we can turn to its main theoretical paradigms, of which there are three: There’s structural functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism.

现在，理解了社研究中的宏观和微观层面，我们可以来社中最主要的三个理模型了：它们是结构功，社冲突，和符号互动。