Ancient Greeks and Roman historians recorded that during the siege of Syracuse in 212 BC, Archimedes constructed a burning glass to set the enemy Roman warships on fire. They call this contraption the death ray.
Conflict theorists were critical of parsons's structural functionalist theory because they argued it presented <u>"an unrealistic image of consenus and harmony in society."</u>
Structural functionalism is the theoretical viewpoint that looks to comprehend the capacity that every part of culture plays in supporting the structure of a general public. In trying to do this, one of its fundamental premises is the possibility that people and culture work with a specific end goal to help the structure of their general public. As a structural functionalist, Parsons was, extremely keen on the possibility of social request. In the same way as other of his auxiliary functionalist cohorts, he held to the utilitarian hypothesis of stratification, the possibility that various leveled class frameworks and requests were essential for society to work.
