Question
Write three main features of the functional method of research in sociology.
Solution
(i) Initially, this method and social anthropology appeared as a reaction against the methods and claims of the evolutionist
(ii) It was a criticism of nature and superficial uses of the comparative method or generalisation after observation and the methods of conjectural history in which data unverified and disorder were employed on contemporary or primitive societies for reconstructing the early stages of human social life.
(iii) It was also a criticism of the intention and claim of the evolutionists to give a scientific account of the complete social history of mankind.
