Define manifest and latent functions and provide examples of each. Then, explain their importance in your life, providing one example of each in your college education.
What will be an ideal response?
Manifest functions are intended goals or consequences of the activities within an institution, such as educating children. Latent functions are unintended goals such as public babysitting. Student Answers will vary regarding their experience.
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Although African Americans found greater freedom in the North, the dominant group's animosity toward them led to majority patterns of avoidance and discrimination
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Researchers at Smith College found that White students were much more likely to voice antiracist sentiments when they see ________
a. another White student express strongly antiracist opinions b. another White student express opinions justifying racism c. an African American student express strongly antiracist opinions d. an African American student express opinions justifying racism
Which of the following is true about sanctions?
A. They are the norms promoted by a particular social group. B. They are penalties and rewards for conduct concerning a social norm. C. They apply only in reference to informal, but oppressive, social norms. D. They can be handed out only by people who hold official positions of power.
On the Jewish holiday of Passover, Jews are expected to eat matzo, or unleavened bread, during their Seder, or holiday dinner, rather than the bread they eat during the rest of the year. Eating the matzo and having a Seder are examples of religious
A. experiences. B. rituals. C. beliefs. D. values.