Examples of this suicide would be Kurt Cobane, Marlyn Monroe, or the people who lost all their money in the stock market when it crashed. All these people didn't want to face the problems of life and feeling bad all the time made them kill themselves.
Robert Merton is another man that studied the line of functionalism and Durkheim. Merton introduced the manifest and latent functions. Manifest functions are things that are seen or conscious in the function of society. Latent functions are the hidden functions of society and the ideas that are not expressed but are there. A good example of a latent function is how people in school will keep down the unemployment rate because they are not in the work force, which means more work for everyone else. .
Functionalism is on the macro level, which means this theory deals with every aspect of society as a whole; examples would be crime, education, media, and government. On the other side of functionalism is the conflict perspective. In this theory elites run the society and control everything in society so that it benefits them. The conflict theory is also on the macro level but opposite from functionalism, it calls for a quick change in society. The other theory that we have looked into is the interactionist perspective. This perspective works on the micro level, which means a small study or a study of 1 single person instead of a large group. The book clearly states what the interactionist theory studies situations like workers at their jobs, encounters at public places, or any behavior in small groups. Much different from the large patterns that functionalism and conflict theory uses the study society.
PART II.
Durkheim used crime to show how functionalism would play a role in society and what would happen if crime were erased from the plant. Just as he showed how many things that crime contributes to, I plan to use sports in our society to show what would happen if we awoke tomorrow and there were no sports.