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Latent functions include socialization with peers and conformity to norms.

Merton work on manifest and latent function was very significant.

Manifest functions of education include socialization and promoting social integration.

314-321, and informs the greater part of his The More Perfect Union, New York: MacMillan, 1918.

" For as long as people confine themselves to certain consequences e.

This is the rationale for the distinction between manifest functions and latent functions; the first referring to those objective consequences for a specified unit person, subgroup, social or cultural system which contribute to its adjustment or adaptation and were so intended; the second referring to unintended and unrecognized consequences of the same order.

These are functions which people assume and expect the institutions to fulfil.

The discovery of latent functions represents significant increments in sociological knowledge.

" Although this fails to locate the latent functions of standardized social actions for a designated social structure, it plainly makes the basic distinction between ends-in-view and objective consequences.