Discussion
According to whom every social system has four functional problems ?
Answer: D
The four functional problems are Parsons's idea.
Talcott Parsons argued that every social system must solve four functional prerequisites, summarised as AGIL: adaptation to the environment, goal attainment, integration of its parts, and latency (pattern maintenance and tension management). In a whole society these are met mainly by the economy, the polity, the societal community and the institutions of socialisation.
Durkheim, Merton and Malinowski were functionalists too, but the four-problem scheme is Parsons's. Malinowski spoke of individual needs, and Merton of manifest and latent functions.
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