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Functionalism is the idea that a building, a chair, or any thing we make should first of all be useful. Looking nice is not the first job. If a house is pretty but you cannot cook in the kitchen, this idea says the house has failed. You meet the word most with buildings and design. Psychology uses the same spelling for a different idea, so the subject around it matters. In everyday talk people sometimes stretch it to mean “plain and practical, not fancy.” Though actually, the design idea was not “ugly is fine.” It was closer to this: if a thing works really well, that itself can be a kind of beauty. Architects treat it as a real school of thought; in ordinary chat it can sound like a textbook word.
機能主義（設計、建築：東西首先要好用。）
組成function (from Latin fūnctiō via French: a role or job something does) + -al (of that kind) + -ism (a belief or school of thought)
同家族的字
- functionthe base: the job or role something does
- functionalthe adjective: made to work well, built for use
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
functionalismnoun/ˈfʌŋkʃənəlɪzəm/
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architectureA doctrine, in several fields, that the function of something should be reflected in its design and the materials used in its construction.
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human-sciencesphilosophysciencesThe definition of mental states in terms of their causes and effects.
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human-sciencessciencessocial-scienceThe idea that social and cultural cohesion are a function of the interdependence and interactions of the institutions of a society.
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historyhuman-sciencessciencesThe theory that the Holocaust was the result of a gradual escalation of decisions and procedures at the operational level (approved but not necessarily preconceived by Hitler).
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human-sciencespsychologysciencesA general school of thought that considers psychological phenomena in terms of their role in adaptation to the person's environment.
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human-scienceslinguisticssciencesSynonym of functional linguistics.
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computingengineeringmathematicsSynonym of functional programming.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。