Original sentence: Consequently, he proposed that most stateless "primitive" societies that lack strong centralised institutions or government are based on an association of such corporate descent groups.Durkheim proposed that such societies tend to be segmentary, being composed of equivalent parts that are held together by shared values, common symbols, or, as his nephew Mauss held, systems of exchanges.He espoused a strong sociological perspective of society which was continued by Radcliffe-Brown, who, following Auguste Comte, believed that the social constituted a separate "level" of reality distinct from both the biological and from inorganic matter.In modern, complex societies members perform very different tasks, meaning that a strong interdependence develops between them.Individuals are significant not in and of themselves but in terms of their status, their position in patterns of social relations, and their roles the behavior(s) associated with their status.Societies are seen as coherent, bounded and fundamentally relational constructs, who function like organisms, with their various parts (social institutions) working together to maintain and reproduce them.The central concern of structural-functionalism was a continuation of the Durkheimian task of explaining the apparent stability and internal cohesion of societies which are necessary to ensure their continued existence over time
Edited sentence: Consequently, Durkheim proposed that most stateless "primitive" societies that lack strong centralised institutions or government are based on an association of such corporate descent groups.Durkheim proposed that such societies tend to be segmentary, with equivalent parts held together by shared values, common symbols, or, as his nephew Marcel Mauss held, systems of exchanges.He espoused a strong sociological perspective of society which was continued by Radcliffe-Brown, who, following Auguste Comte, believed that the social constituted a separate "level" of reality distinct from both the biological and inorganic matter.In modern, complex societies members perform very different tasks, resulting in a strong interdependence between them.Individuals are significant not in and of themselves but in terms of their status, their position in patterns of social relations, and the behavior(s) associated with their status.Societies are seen as coherent, bounded and fundamentally relational constructs, that function like organisms, with their various parts (social institutions) working together to maintain and reproduce them.The central concern of structural-functionalism was a continuation of the Durkheimian task of explaining the apparent stability and internal cohesion of societies needed to ensure their continued existence over time