Functionalism

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Functionalism may refer to:

• Functionalism (aesthetics), a doctrine declaring that only objects based on utility and economy can be beautiful
  • Functionalism (architecture), the principle that architects should design a building based on the purpose of that building
• Functionalism in international relations, a theory that arose during the inter-War period
• Functional linguistics, a theoretical approach to the study of language
• Functionalism (philosophy of mind), a theory of the mind in contemporary philosophy
• Functionalism versus intentionalism, a historiographical debate about the origins of the Holocaust
• Structural functionalism, a theoretical tradition within sociology and anthropology
• Biological functionalism, an anthropological paradigm
• Functionalism (sociology of science), a concept due to Robert K. Merton

See also

• Danish functional linguistics
• Functional (disambiguation)
• Functional psychology
• Neofunctionalism

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