"function" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- A latent function of a behavior is not explicitly stated, recognized, or intended by the people involved.
- Both manifest and latent functions contribute to the social system's unchanging ongoingness or stasis.
- Merton made it very clear however, that unanticipated consequences and latent functions are not the same.
- Thus one latent function of the creative cookery ideal is the production of dissatisfaction.
- All these strands of thought fulfil a latent function for the housewife.
- In the functionalist perspective, magic performs a latent function in the society.
- Its latent function was to ensure that the lower classes fitted in with the designs of their betters.
- He also developed the concept of deviance and made the distinction between manifest and latent functions.
- The second type of function is "latent functions", where a social pattern results in an unrecognized or unintended consequence.
- The latent functions of education include meeting new people, extra-curricular activities, school trips.
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