Education keeps students off the street and out of the full-time job market for a number of years, thus helping keep unemployment within reasonable bounds. Which latent function of education does this illustrate?

a. Restriction of some activities
b. Matchmaking and the production of social networks
c. Creation of a generation gap
d. Social placement


a

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What will be an ideal response?

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Sociology