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<p>structural functionalism may be regarded as a continuation of the Durkheimian task of explaining the apparent stability and internal <a href="page.php?w=Group_cohesiveness">cohesion</a> needed by societies to endure over time. Societies are seen as coherent, bounded and fundamentally relational constructs that function like organisms, with their various (or social institutions) working together in an unconscious, quasi-automatic fashion toward achieving an overall <a href="page.php?w=social_equilibrium">social equilibrium</a>. All social and</p><p>
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