Malinowski and The Creation of Functionalism

Bronislaw Malinowski was born in Krakow, Poland on April 7, 1884. He was born into an aristocratic and cultured family. Due to the wealth of Malinowski's family he was able to acquire a vast education that so many of his time were not able to receive. Using this education, Malinowski worked many years in the field doing research and studding his numerous hypotheses. After years of studying and doing intensive fieldwork, Malinowski became an influential British anthropologist and the founder of the Functional theory.
Putting his education and practical experience from his fieldwork, Mal…