Public housing projects are intended to provide stable and secure housing for the poor, but in many parts of the world, they replaced viable neighborhoods and became hotbeds of crime. Is this an example of a manifest function or a latent function? Please explain your answer.
What will be an ideal response?
Functions and dysfunction may be manifest (intended and recognized) or latent (unexpected or unknown to many). The above scenario is an example of a latent function because the intent was to provide stable and secure housing for the poor, even if the reality is that public housing projects created unstable neighborhoods.
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