So heartbreaking. Frank Gifford, renowned sportscaster and NFL legend, died suddenly on Aug. 9 at his Connecticut home. Frank, who was married to TODAY show co-host Kathie Lee Gifford, 61, was 84 years old. He played for the New York Giants before transitioning into a successful career in sports broadcasting.
Recent trends in social structure theory. Currently, those pursuing research in the area of social structure follow limited but practical goals. They focus on the development of theories, laws, generalizations, calculi, and methods that account for structural regularities in society.
Structural functionalism deals with and focusses on what social functions various elements of the social system perform with regard to the system as a whole. Social structures are placed at the center of analysis in structural functionalism, and social functions are deduced from these structures.