Which of the following is a latent function of education?

a. providing child care
b. teaching basic academic skills
c. transmitting cultural knowledge
d. generating innovation
e. socializing students to become competent citizens and workers


A

Sociology

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a. the increased population. b. our increased life expectancy. c. urbanization. d. higher infant mortality rate.

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a. carcinogens b. prenatal poisonings c. teratogens d. placenta-antagonists

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Recent Chinese immigrants to the U.S. often find jobs working in sweatshops in New York City's Chinatown, where they work 16 or more hours a day in the garment industry, earning less than minimum wage. The big businesses that hire these illegal and often uninformed immigrants illustrate

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Sociology