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The 62 pages that link to Functional psychology, each with the reason it gives.

• Social stratificationRelated: Functionalist accounts interpret unequal rewards as one way societies allocate demanding roles.

• Émile DurkheimRelated: Later functionalists adapted Durkheim’s focus on institutions and social cohesion.

• Modern architectureRelated: Modern architects treated practical purpose as a basis for design rather than copying historical forms.

• William JamesBroader topic: James’s emphasis on what consciousness does helped establish this approach to psychology.

• ConsciousnessCompared with: It offers a functional account of mind that faces questions about subjective feeling.

• Structural anthropologyCompared with: Structural analysis seeks relational patterns beneath institutions rather than primarily their social functions.

• BauhausRelated: It helps explain the school’s emphasis on useful, producible designs.

• Mind–body problemCompared with: It allows mental states to be physically realized without identifying them with one material type.

• StructuralismCompared with: Functionalists asked what consciousness does rather than cataloging its elemental contents.

• ArchitectureCompared with: It offers a strong alternative to treating visual expression as the primary design goal.

• Beaux-Arts architectureCompared with: Its emphasis on use challenged Beaux-Arts preferences for formal hierarchy and ceremony.

• Experimental psychologyCompared with: It shifted emphasis from identifying elements of experience to understanding what they do.

• Methodological individualismCompared with: Functional explanations can account for institutions without tracing them to individual intentions.

• Hard problem of consciousnessCompared with: Functional accounts explain mental roles, while the hard problem asks whether those roles explain experience.

• QualiaCompared with: Functionalist accounts challenge the claim that mental roles leave an extra, irreducible qualitative property.

• PsychologyRelated: It shifted attention from the contents of consciousness to what psychological processes do.

• Anthropology of religionCompared with: Functionalist accounts emphasize religion’s effects rather than the truth of its claims.

• Walter GropiusRelated: Gropius treated practical needs and production methods as generators of architectural form.

• Edward ThorndikeNarrower topic: Thorndike’s focus on what learning accomplishes grew within American functionalist psychology.

• Thick descriptionCompared with: It asks what practices do for social systems, rather than chiefly what they mean.

• John B. WatsonCompared with: Watson’s emphasis on prediction and control displaced the mental-function questions of his training.

• Gilbert RyleCompared with: Functionalism offers a later account of mind that differs from Ryle’s analysis of mental language and dispositions.

• Identity theoryCompared with: It allows one mental state to have different physical realizations, unlike strict type identity.

• John SearleCompared with: Searle objects that functional organization alone cannot explain subjective experience.

• Philosophy of mindCompared with: It explains mentality through patterns of input, internal state, and behavior.

• Substance dualismCompared with: It explains mentality through organization and function, without requiring an immaterial substance.

• Philip JohnsonCompared with: Johnson’s later work often favored symbolic form and historical reference over strict functionalist restraint.

• The Feminine MystiqueRelated: Friedan criticizes social theories that treated prescribed gender roles as necessary and natural.

• Daniel DennettRelated: Its focus on what mental states do aligns with Dennett’s functional explanations of the mind.

• Eliminative materialismCompared with: Functionalism allows familiar mental states to persist if science explains their roles.

• Phenomenal consciousnessCompared with: Its account of mental function is often contrasted with the claim that felt qualities remain unexplained.

• Property dualismCompared with: Functionalism can treat mental properties as multiply realizable, without making them nonphysical.

• Holocaust historiographyCompared with: It challenges accounts that derive the Holocaust mainly from a fixed plan.

• ProfessionalizationRelated: Functionalist accounts treated professional expertise and service as contributions to social needs.

• Soviet architectureCompared with: Its emphasis on utility clarifies debates over Soviet design and standardized housing.

• Ceramic artCompared with: Functionalism foregrounds utility, a priority ceramic artworks may accept, alter, or reject.

• Edmund LeachCompared with: Leach resisted accounts that treated societies as integrated, equilibrated systems.

• Prague SchoolRelated: The school asked how language structures serve communication, rather than describing forms alone.

• Symbolic anthropologyCompared with: Functionalist accounts emphasize social consequences, whereas symbolic analyses ask what practices mean to participants.

• Chinese roomCompared with: Its focus on functional organization contrasts with Searle’s emphasis on biological causal powers.

• Ethnographic presentRelated: Functionalist accounts often emphasized a society's present organization over its historical formation.

• Prague Linguistic CircleRelated: The Circle analyzed linguistic forms in relation to communicative functions.

• Edward B. TitchenerCompared with: It challenged the structuralist emphasis on cataloguing the components of consciousness.

• Studio potteryCompared with: Studio potters negotiate practical use alongside authorship, form, and surface expression.

• EpiphenomenalismCompared with: Functionalism typically makes mental states causally active within the system they organize.

• Phenomenology of religionCompared with: It asks what religion does socially, rather than first describing how religious acts appear to participants.

• Structural MarxismCompared with: Structural Marxism also studies reproduction, but grounds it in historically specific relations and contradictions.

• Alvar AaltoCompared with: Aalto accepted functional aims but resisted reducing design to austere utility.

• Lúcio CostaRelated: The separation of Brasília’s urban functions reflects a central modernist planning principle.

• Mind (mental faculty)Related: It offers an account of mental states that does not require a particular biological substrate.