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