cultural functionalism

基本解释

The major objection to Malinowski's functionalism is that it cannot readily account for cultural variation.
Malinowski的功能主義不能解釋文化差異，這被人們所詬病。
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Using the theory of cultural functionalism, the paper discusses the worship of human reproduction and its future changes in China.
運用功能文化論，探討了生殖崇拜的功能和生殖崇拜未來的發展。
In other words, functionalism does not explain why certain specific cultural patterns arise to fulfill a need that might be fulfilled just as easily by any of a number of alternative possibilities.
換句話說，功能主義不能解釋爲何一種爲滿足需要而發展起來的文化模式也可能被其他的適宜的模式所取代。
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