SOCIAL: THE MACHINE

I have a lot of experience. From my experience I have observed four classifications of people. People belong in one or more of these four categories; the establishment, the academy, the institution or the union. The establishment consist of government and political officials which seek to maintain law and order. These people work to accomplish government objectives. The academy on the other hand, are those people in advertising and the arts. These people entertain and provide content for mass media consumption. The institution is the realm of academia and professionals. These people are at the forefront of societal progress and they work to uncover solutions to societies problems. Lastly, we have the union. These people are comprised of workers and semi professionals. This is the category whereby most of the people are classified. They work under the government and for the institution and influenced by the academy. As you can see from this model we can clearly identify each type of person under a designated category. This according to structural functionalism is the societal machine. These groups of people cooperate with each other to be able to fulfil societal objectives. If there is a conflict these categories band together to dissolve social threats. Now that you know the classification of people from my perspective, I dare to ask, which do you fall under?