What might a cultural functionalist think suburbanization?

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Explanation:

Functionalists view or perception of a society is that, society as a whole, is a system in which all the parts works or functions together in order to create society as a whole. Thus, societies need all forms of settlements, urban, suburban, and rural to function well.

Therefore, functionalist view on suburbanization is that, suburbanization function to support the smooth operation of society, and suburbanization help people living in big cities or urban areas to move out of the city or settled in a suburb or satellite town, while still working in a city by moving in and out through automobile transportation.

It changes the culture of local people that lives outside the cities.

Explanation:

Cultural functionalist think suburbanization as a bad step taken by the people because this shifting of people from urban to areas outside the populated cities changes the culture of the local people by interacting with new people with new culture. They also adopt new technology and new methods of infrastructure. It also increases pollution in that areas due to usage of more vehicles and consumption of more energy, more area should be converted into flat land by cutting of trees which leads to the destruction of natural habitat of various species.