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This paper explains how two major historical occurrences - The French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution gave rise to a new way of thinking in society - Functionalism. It also discusses the theory of Symbolic Interactionism and links these two theories by analyzing how they relate to race and ethic issues.

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"Functionalism in sociology stresses the importance of interdependence among all behavior patterns and institutions within a social system to its long-term survival. Functionalism is often referred to as "consensus" theory because it doesn't address the issue of conflict in society, rather it projects and ideal picture of harmonious social relationships."

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