Answer to Question #112475 in Sociology for Andiswa

Question

How is the concept 'identity' explained by a functionalist?

Answer 1

According to functionalists, our identity through time consists of phycological continuity. In this sense, the argue that you are the future being who has some sort of mental features inherited from you and the one who has the mental features he has the in large part because you have the mental features you currently have. Ideally, you are the past being who mental features you have inherited.