Multiple choice

One of the critical ideas inherent in the concept of social system is that social system has emergent properties of its own over and above the properties of its elements. Who among the following has criticized the idea?

  1. C. Wright Mills

  2. A. Giddens

  3. A.R. Radcliff Brown

  4. R. Merton

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B Correct answer
Explanation

Anthony Giddens, through his structuration theory, criticized the functionalist view of social systems as having emergent properties independent of human agency, emphasizing the duality of structure.