Society is a relatively stable but complex system of parts; each part of the system contributes to the well being of the whole system. Society and culture largely determine the behavior of humans. With this being the foundation of structural functionalism I believe functionalist's would be interested in looking at how fraternities members work together to achieve the frat's success. How each person is given a responsibility, and for the fraternity to work properly they must all full fill their given job.In the social conflict theory, society is supposedly being built out of the conflicting interests of the “owner class” and the “working class.” This ensuing struggle between classes would lead to a classless society, again in theory. I believe that a social conflict theorist would say that fraternities/sororities are a different class of people then peoples not currently in clubs. They like to party a lot while other people like to study and sleep. As you can see happening though, fraternities are now making their members study a certain amount a week and so on. This in tern proves the theory right, because they are working towards having the other class of people join, while that class maybe wants to party a little bit between homework hours.Social interactionism says that, social reality is constructed through social interaction, and agreement “Symbols” are the basis of social life. I believe that social interactionist would most likely look into the symbols the frat's pick for their names. Why do they use certain Greek letters to distinguish them from other organizations? Is there an actual reason behind the names and symbols or is it just randomly picked. These are some of the things I believe a social interactionist would be interested in....
