Manifest and latent functions and dysfunctions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Manifest and latent functions are social scientific concepts first clarified for sociology by Robert K. Merton Diligio, 2000. Merton appeared interested in sharpening the conceptual tools to be emplo...
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Robert K. Merton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robert King Merton (July 4, 1910 – February 23, 2003, born Meyer R. Schkolnick to immigrant parents) was a distinguished American sociologist perhaps best known for having coined the phrase "self-f...
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The very diversity of these subject-matters suggests that thetheoretic distinction between manifest and latent functions is notbound up with a limited and particular range of human behavior. ... 65. George H. Mead, "The psychology of punitive justice," AmericanJournal of Sociology, 1918, 23, 577-602, esp. 591.
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Principal Concepts ... Robert K. Merton attempted to clarify the concept of function by distinguishing latent and manifest functions. Latent functions are those objective consequences of a cultural item which are neither intended nor recognized by the members of a society.
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To solve these two conceptual confusions, Merton introduces two, new analytical concepts - i.e. the notion of multiple consequences and a new balance of an aggregate consequences to deal with the first problem, and the notion of manifest and latent functions to tackle the second (see summary on p. 105).
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Theoretical perspectives on religion, assumptions and concepts ... Family trends in time of marriage, size, changing functions, etc. ... Manifest and latent functions of education...
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Sociology is the systematic study of social behavior and human groups. ... Origins of Sociology ... Manifest and Latent Functions (The Sacred Cow in India)
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A figure whose wide-ranging theoretical and methodological contributions have become fundamental to the field, Merton is best known for introducing such concepts and procedures as unanticipated consequences, ... Merton's foundational writings on social structure and process, on the sociology of science and knowledge,
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MANIFEST AND LATENT FUNCTIONS ... It is considered only as an illustration of the pertinence for sociological inquiry of the concept of latent function, and the associated concepts of functional analysis. ... 65. George H. Mead, "The psychology of punitive justice," American Journal of Sociology, 1918, 23, 577-602, esp. 591.
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