Functionalist Theory Of Homosexuality

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Nevertheless, Functionalists theory only focused on men and women as genders and their roles in the society to function which disintegrate other genders. The focal point of conventional community, particularly in Russia, is to encourage social stability in the society, based on tradition, patriarchy and religion. These affect homosexuality because, it became illegal and deviant as they cannot conform to the needs and rules of the society. (Schaaf, 2013), Homosexuality is an alien or mental illness and Russian identity was renewed by religious fervour because Russian Orthodox believed in Russian norms of machismo or patriarchy. Additionally, due to labelling and categorizing gender, creates fear, suffering, disobedience and deprivation of liberty …show more content…

The notion of freedom is very complicated and have been scrutinized by prominent people like Isaiah Berlin. (Miller, 2017) He constructs the “Two Concepts of Liberty”, the positive and negative liberty. Absence of obstruction or interference by other men is called Negative Liberty while, a person is free when he controls his own life, rather than being an instrument of someone else’s will, a self-mastery is what he said to be the Positive Liberty (p10). In detail, the negative freedom of an individual living in poverty is to look for another job with higher salary without the intervention of others. Positive freedom, is there any company willing to give a higher salary without enough qualification? A positive liberty is a concentrated government to take dynamic steps to help the individual to removed from poverty and to pursue the person’s desires, and has enough resources to attain them such as free education to have better qualification for future employment. “Adult learners can apply for grants and bursaries to help pay for courses and training” (Gov.

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