| 1. | Latent functions are one type of unanticipated consequences; functional for the designated system.
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| 2. | The latent functions of education include meeting new people, extra-curricular activities, school trips.
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| 3. | Latent functions are those that are neither recognized nor intended.
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| 4. | Merton made it very clear however, that unanticipated consequences and latent functions are not the same.
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| 5. | A latent function of a behavior is not explicitly stated, recognized, or intended by the people involved.
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| 6. | In distinguishing between manifest and latent functions, Merton argued that one must dig to discover latent functions.
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| 7. | In distinguishing between manifest and latent functions, Merton argued that one must dig to discover latent functions.
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| 8. | Parenti sees the repression dished out by gangs on non-affiliated prisoners as a latent function of prison gangs.
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| 9. | His example from his 1949 piece, " Manifest and Latent Functions ", was an analysis of political machines.
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| 10. | The second type of function is " latent functions ", where a social pattern results in an unrecognized or unintended consequence.
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