What is neo-functionalism? Examine its strengths and limitations.

Neofunctionalism is the perspective that all integration is the result of past integration. The term may also be used to literally describe a social theory that is 'post' traditional structural functionalism. Whereas theorists such as Jeffrey C. Alexander openly appropriated the term, others, such as the post-structuralist philosopher Michel Foucault, have been categorized as contemporary functionalists by their critics.

In sociology, neofunctionalism represents a revival of the thought of Talcott Parsons by Jeffrey C. Alexander, who sees neofunctionalism as having 5 central tendencies:

• to create a form of structural functionalism that is multidimensional and includes micro as well as macro levels of analysis
• to push functionalism to the left and reject Parsons’s optimism about modernity
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