Consensus Theories
Theorists in this perspective tend to concentrate their theoretical efforts on some of the largest groups in any society, namely social institutions (something that is probably true of all Structuralist theories, consensus or conflict).
As we have seen earlier, Consensus (or Functionalist) sociologists identify four main institutional groupings (or functional sub-systems) in any society, namely:
a. Economic.
b. Political.
c. Family and Kinship.
d. Cultural.
All of the above have some role to play in the overall determination of the culture of society, although some institutions (such as education, media, religion and so forth) play a more explicit part than others (which is why we term these cultural institutions).