Federalists were in favor of a strong central government, and  favored strong fiscal policies that included paying off the  national debt, setting tariffs to make domestic iâ¦ndustries  stronger, and establishing a national bank.
Emile Durkheim developed theories of social structure that included functionalism, the division of labor, and anomie. These theories were founded on the concept of social facts, or societal norms, values, and structures. Functionalism is a concept with three integral elements.
By Ashley Crossman. The functionalist perspective, also called functionalism, is one of the major theoretical perspectives in sociology.It has its origins in the works of Emile Durkheim, who was especially interested in how social order is possible or how society remains relatively stable.hen one part of the system is not working or is dysfunctional, it affects all other parts and creates social problems, which leads to social change. The functionalist perspective achieved its greatest popularity among American sociologists in the 1940s and 1950s.