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Describe the functional prerequisites of social system as given by Talcott Parsons. Examine in the context of a university as a social system.
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For Talcott Parsons, any system of interacting status-roles lasts only if it keeps solving four recurring problems, its functional prerequisites: Adaptation, Goal attainment, Integration and Latency (AGIL). He set them out in Working Papers in the Theory of Action (1953, with Robert F. Bales and Edward Shils). With Gerald M. Platt he later applied the…
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