Latent functions of education include social integration, establishing relationships, and conformity to peer norms. Examples include matching the attitudes and beliefs of a person’s peer group and giving children the opportunity to socialize and allowing them to form meaningful relationships.
Beside above, what is difference between manifest and latent functions?
Manifest Versus Latent Function
While manifest functions are consciously and deliberately intended to produce beneficial outcomes, latent functions are neither conscious nor deliberate but also produce benefits. They are, in effect, unintended positive consequences.
(noun) Unanticipated and unintended consequences of an action or social structure; unknown or unacknowledged reasons something is done.
Also, why is it called latent function?
Latent functions are those that are neither recognized nor intended. A latent function of a behavior is not explicitly stated, recognized, or intended by the people involved. Thus, they are identified by observers.