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Functionalist views of race.
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So the basics of structural functionalism to describe racism is they view race to study the role dominant and subordinate group which plays to create a stable social structure.
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Also conflict theorists examine power disparities and struggles between various racial and ethnic groups.
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So the functionalist argument explained racism by appealing to stabilizing effects on class relations.
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So how functionalism, structural functionalism that explains race and racism.
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So society every aspect of a society that is every society part plays a major role in society to be stable and functioning properly.
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So the theorist manning nash who proposed three ways in which racism helps our society.
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So he says that he does not claim that racism helps all parts of the society instead it helps our society as a whole but whole benefits because the majority of society is not the victim of prejudice and racism.
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His first claim is that racism lets whites justify our unequal society.
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If non -whites are poor and suffer from other problems it is not the fault of our society...