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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As earthbound concrete replaced shimmering glass, so crude functionalism was to supplant soaring aspiration.
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Even at this moment of patriotic and quasi-mystical emotion, rationalized functionalism is expressed.
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Its functionalism was at least tempered by a grand conception of space.
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Mannheim's ideas will now be applied to two of the major theoretical perspectives in sociology: Marxism and functionalism .
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One of Durkheim's main legacies is the sociological tradition known as functionalism .
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This will involve a brief discussion of the approach known in contemporary philosophy as functionalism .
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Unfortunately, much of the drab utilitarianism of urban existence has come to be associated with the design philosophy of functionalism .