Discussion
The structural-functional approach was developed from the work of the anthropologist :
Answer: B
The anthropologists were Malinowski and Radcliffe Brown.
Structural-functional analysis began in social anthropology. Bronislaw Malinowski explained social institutions by the needs they serve (functionalism), and A. R. Radcliffe-Brown by the part they play in maintaining the social structure. Sociologists such as Talcott Parsons and Robert Merton developed it further, and Fred Riggs and Gabriel Almond carried it into comparative administration and politics.
Merton and Blau were sociologists, not the anthropologists who founded the approach. Anthony Downs and Gordon Tullock are public choice theorists, and Miller and Rice wrote on organisations as open socio-technical systems.
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