What are the manifest and latent functions of education?

What will be an ideal response?


The formal education process transmits the culture of society to new generations and prepares those generations for appropriate occupational and citizenship roles. Educational institutions also continually evaluate and select competent individuals and transmit the requisite social skills for functioning in society.

Sociology

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a. critical discursive analysis of ‘small stories' b. large-scale High-School survey reports c. Postmodernist theoretical framework d. ironic incongruity

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The question of how two previously separate individuals come together and over time create a shared view of themselves as a couple would be best answered using which perspective?

a. feminist b. attachment c. family ecology d. interaction-constructionist

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Tom has bad credit and would like to fix it. He sees an advertisement from a company that can fix his credit problems. He calls and pays them a large fee to erase his credit history. The company cannot erase his history. Tom has been taken by a ___________ scam

a. telemarketing b. hard sell c. credit repair d. magazine

Sociology

Sara and Eli are having a conversation about college classes. As Eli is telling Sara about the difficult exam he had yesterday, Sara will not let him finish; she begins telling Eli about the most challenging exam she had last week. Sara's listening style exemplifies the:

A. interrupter. B. intellectual listener. C. faker. D. dependent listener.

Sociology