During the late 1960s and through the 1970s, led by Stuart Hall, The Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies began to incorporate sociology as a significant cultural study. Hall believed that sociology should be considered as a cultural study due to its wide-ranging spectrum of theories and methods which relate to other important disciplines, such as philosophy, history and politics. What also made sociology all-encompassing was its inclusion of everyday practices, rituals, social groups and all different kinds of media. One of the main concerns of the Center dealt with social structure versus individuality and how the two effect one another. The term functionalism refers to the argument that the social world constrains and limits the individual within certain parameters. Meanwhile, interactionism is the opposite, it argues that the individual can interact productively with the social world, without outside influence.
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