Structural-functionalism, once the flagship of comparative political research, has fallen upon the ash heap of history, discarded by friends and foes alike for failures of theoretical rigor and, worse ...

This is the first of a two-part article that examines both structural and processural paradigms of social theory. This argues ...

A review of previous attempts to test hypotheses derived from the functional theory of stratification suggests that to test the theory as formulated by Davis and Moore, the unit of analysis must be ...