This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The aim of this paper is to analyse two different text types within a discourse functional framework, in order to determine whether there is a ...

Despite recent and growing interest in organizational politics, conceptual thought in this area tends to be dominated by a single theoretical perspective. In this paper we describe and contrast three ...

The functionalist view of education tends to focus on the positive contributions made by education to the maintenance of social system. Others have argued that after primary socialisation within the ...

According to the functionalist theoretical perspective of sociology introduced by Emile Durkheim in the nineteenth century, society is held together by social consensus, or cohesion, in which members ...