Compare and contrast manifest and latent functions of education. Give specific examples.
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. Manifest functions are those that are direct and obvious, and include teaching academic subjects, socialization, social placement, social control and integration, and social change and innovation.
2. Latent functions are indirect by-products of education, and include reduced crime, reduced childcare costs, lower unemployment, and assistance with mate selection.
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a. a university residence hall b. a monastery c. basic training for the military d. a prison
A society that emphasizes service and information professions shifts toward a. hand labor
b. mechanization. c. automation. d. cybernation.
The economic system accompanying and driving the Industrial Revolution was
a. the welfare state. b. communism. c. capitalism. d. socialism.
The text notes that U.S. leaders justified the Korean War and the war in Vietnam as efforts to keep the world safe from communism, illustrating which factor identified as promoting war?
A. moral objectives B. wealth and power C. absence of alternatives D. cultural and religious differences