Describe the premises of functionalism.

Durkheim is not a ‘functionalist’ in the sense in which this term has come to be used for the approach that the British social anthropologists, A.R. RadcliffeBrown (1881-1955) and Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942), have espoused. Durkheim does not use the term ‘functionalism’, although he defines the concept of social function. One comes across in Durkheim’s works a fine coexistence of the diachronic (genetic, evolutionary, and historical) and the synchronic (society ‘here and now’) approaches. For instance, in his celebrated study of religion, he begins

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