Dynamic Functionalism: An Exchange.

This article presents information on the review made by the author on the book "Dynamic Functionalism: Strategy and Tactics," by Michael A. Faia and the reply from Faia to the points raised by the author. According to the author Science is the only language in which denotation is everything and connotation is a curse. Even "the law" does not go to this extreme. Nowhere in his book can the author find Faia's definition of the term functionalism or a forthright declaration that for his work that concept is an undefined predicate. Faia replied that there are several instances in which the author does not summarize his arguments accurately. The most serious of these occurs when the author raises a pair of seemingly rhetorical questions about survivability of social organizations, failing all the while to note that he has answered both questions in detail. Given that functionalism concentrates on i-functions (interest-functions) at least as often as it concentrates on s-functions (survivorship functions), survivorship analysis is not "characteristic of the structural functional approach in general."