We all have a purpose and we all have a reason to be here but how do we decide where we go and what we do in life. From birth, we are given a personality and other characteristic that make us or are we in fact just learning as we grow. Society is like a body, or according to Durkheim a machine. Everybody has a function to keep society moving much like a cog in a larger machine, and if the cog fails in its purpose, the mechanical environment cannot survive. Functionalism states that in order to sustain a healthy and productive society everything needs to be given function to enable people to work together. This begins with primary socialisation where parents begin to teach their children the norms and values of life, moral codes and attributions of behaviour to assigned gender. From a very young age parents will be teaching their children what society wants them to like and dislike by the types of coloured clothes they buy, the toys they get them. Secondary socialisation is slightly later in life when children start to go to school and begin to make friendships. Schools prepare children for the society they will be growing up in. They teach them everything from rules of crime and deviancy to how they should be treating the opposite sex. This is an example of how functionalists believe that to keep society in a controlled environment we must teach each generation what the main role and purpose of each gender is. During a study in 1930 about the normality in modern life Dr William Ogburn suggested that functionalism was split into six main functions that gave everybody in the family a purpose, starting with reproduction. This means that the whole family has the duty of replacing dying members to sustain mankind. Protection is another section where constant care and economic security is needed. To monitor a child's behaviour and transmit the norms and values of everyday life is another section called socialisation. Furthermore, the culture the child is being brought up in will determine its sexual behaviour, which also links with socialisation because children are taught that is wrong to have sexual encounters with family members or with people of the same sex. As the first place a child will experience love and affection, functionalists believe that the home being the primary source will treat children to grow up and want the same economic, emotional, financial, and social stability they experience. Functionalism therefore may be described as a general consensus in which everyone agrees on the collective rules of society. Linking in to the functionalist view, Hobbes believed that all humans are born with an overpowering drive for self-interest. He suggests that without reinforcing a hierarchy upon soci