functionalist tradition

Which American Sociologists Were Part Of The Functionalist Tradition? Durkheim and Merton are the two prominent sociologists of functionalist tradition. American sociologist Merton is accepted as the successor of European Sociologist Durkheim in this tradition. Who created functionalism sociology? Functionalism, as developed by Talcott Parsons (1902–1979), provided a bridge between classical and modern sociology. What