cultural functionalism

基本解释

The major objection to Malinowski's functionalism is that it cannot readily account for cultural variation.
Malinowski的功能主义不能解释文化差异，这被人们所诟病。
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Using the theory of cultural functionalism, the paper discusses the worship of human reproduction and its future changes in China.
运用功能文化论，探讨了生殖崇拜的功能和生殖崇拜未来的发展。
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.
换句话说，功能主义不能解释为何一种为满足需要而发展起来的文化模式也可能被其他的适宜的模式所取代。
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