Structural functionalism

Quality:

Structural functionalism - a sociological theory arguing that the stability of society is determined by functional institutions and individuals having a specific role. Article “Structural functionalism” in English Wikipedia has 70.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 83 references and 17 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 7.8 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Structural functionalism” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 5 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Structural functionalism”, its content was written by 372 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 927 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 831 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3311 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1523 in February 2012
• Global: #5175 in December 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #7155 in November 2010
• Global: #9482 in October 2010

There are 26 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Structural functionalism		70.1875
2	Korean (ko) 구조기능주의		61.0764
3	Spanish (es) Funcionalismo estructuralista		47.9619
4	Chinese (zh) 结构功能主义		47.3674
5	Persian (fa) کارکردگرایی ساختاری		40.2745
6	Portuguese (pt) Funcionalismo (ciências sociais)		34.2328
7	Turkish (tr) Yapısal işlevselcilik		31.2618
8	Czech (cs) Strukturální funkcionalismus		30.3802
9	Arabic (ar) نسق اجتماعي		28.929
10	Hebrew (he) פונקציונליזם סטרוקטורלי		25.6358

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Structural functionalism		7 244 212
2	Spanish (es) Funcionalismo estructuralista		3 429 448
3	Portuguese (pt) Funcionalismo (ciências sociais)		1 619 088
4	Indonesian (id) Fungsionalisme struktural		725 214
5	Russian (ru) Структурный функционализм		545 921
6	Chinese (zh) 结构功能主义		463 519
7	Arabic (ar) نسق اجتماعي		379 279
8	German (de) Strukturfunktionalismus		310 105
9	Persian (fa) کارکردگرایی ساختاری		221 911
10	Hindi (hi) संरचनात्मक प्रकार्यवाद		211 916

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Structural functionalism		8 036
2	Chinese (zh) 结构功能主义		1 579
3	Spanish (es) Funcionalismo estructuralista		1 388
4	Russian (ru) Структурный функционализм		929
5	Portuguese (pt) Funcionalismo (ciências sociais)		567
6	Persian (fa) کارکردگرایی ساختاری		371
7	Hindi (hi) संरचनात्मक प्रकार्यवाद		355
8	Japanese (ja) 構造機能主義		351
9	German (de) Strukturfunktionalismus		347
10	Indonesian (id) Fungsionalisme struktural		294

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Structural functionalism		372
2	German (de) Strukturfunktionalismus		70
3	Spanish (es) Funcionalismo estructuralista		67
4	Portuguese (pt) Funcionalismo (ciências sociais)		62
5	Hebrew (he) פונקציונליזם סטרוקטורלי		44
6	Russian (ru) Структурный функционализм		39
7	Chinese (zh) 结构功能主义		36
8	Dutch (nl) Structureel functionalisme		33
9	Japanese (ja) 構造機能主義		25
10	Persian (fa) کارکردگرایی ساختاری		23

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Korean (ko) 구조기능주의		3
2	English (en) Structural functionalism		1
3	Indonesian (id) Fungsionalisme struktural		1
4	Arabic (ar) نسق اجتماعي		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) Struktur funksionalizm		0
6	Catalan (ca) Funcionalisme estructural		0
7	Czech (cs) Strukturální funkcionalismus		0
8	Danish (da) Strukturfunktionalisme		0
9	German (de) Strukturfunktionalismus		0
10	Spanish (es) Funcionalismo estructuralista		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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