Education keeps students off the streets and out of the full-time job market for a number of years, thus keeping levels of unemployment within reasonable bounds. This exemplifies how education serves the latent function of __________
A. restricting some activities
B. socialization
C. creating a generation gap
D. social placement
Ans: A. restricting some activities
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a. Marx divided capitalist societies into two categories: the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. b. Marx believed that economic factors alone were not the sole determinants in class and social equality. c. Marx believed that wealth, power, and prestige play roles in people's class positions. d. Marx identified four classes in the U.S. economical system.
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a. hypothetico-deductive thought b. multiple frameworks c. reality constraints d. single solution
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a. rewards b. comparison Levels c. comparison Levels for Alternatives d. love
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