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CHINA – The One Child Policy THE FUNCTIONALIST PERSPECTIVE One major feature of the functionalist perspective is that change is evolutionary. Meaning that change occurs due to the current needs of the society. This includes things such as new institutions being built, new laws, beliefs and values of that society being introduced. Chinas One Child Policy was introduced due to the current needs of the Chinese society. The Chinese population was growing rapidly, and if continued it would have effected greatly the countries economics, and also the lives of the people in China. The Chinese government needs to do something to slow this growth so they introduced the One Child Policy which to some extent has been achieved. Another point of the functionalist theory is that society has to live in agreeance on the norms and values in order to function properly. Although there was a lot of deviance towards the One Child Policy the majority of the country was in agreeance in that they would follow the governments policy. They did this by signing forms on the policy. Although this process was helped with rewards for signing these forms, with these forms of agreeance the policy was effective, and this change effected society as a whole and