MANIFEST AND LATENT FUNCTIONS

OF EDUCATION

Manifest Functions of Education The manifest functions of

education are the open and intended goals or consequences of activities within an organization or institution.

There Are Six Major Manifest Functions Of Education In Society

1.Socialization From kindergarten through

college, schools teach students the student role, specific academic subjects, and political socialization.

In the primary and secondary schools, students are taught specific subject matter appropriate to their age, skill level and previous education experience. In the college level, students focus on more detailed knowledge of subjects.

2. Social Control Schools are responsible for teaching

values such as discipline, respect, obedience, punctuality and perseverance. Schools teach conformity by

encouraging young people to be good students, conscientious, future workers, and low-abiding citizens.

3. Social Placement Schools are responsible for

identifying the most qualified people to fill available positions in society.

4. Transmitting Culture As a social institution, education

performs a rather conservable function – transmitting the dominant culture.

We learn respect for social control and reverence for established institutions such as religion, the family, and the government.

5. Promoting Social and Political Integration

By transforming its population composed of diverse

ethnic and religious groups into a society whose members share – to some extent at least – a common identity.

6. Agent of ChangeEducation can stimulate or bring

about desired social change. It promotes social change by serving

as meeting ground where each society’s distinctive beliefs and traditions can be shared.

Latent Functions of Education

The hidden, unstated and sometimes unintended consequences

of activities within an organization or institution.

1. Restricting Some Activities In our society there are laws that

require children to attend school or complete a primary and secondary education.

Keep students off the street and out of the full-time job market for a number of years, by helping keep unemployment within reasonable bounds.

2. Matchmaking and Production of Social Networks

Because school brings together people of similar

ages, social class, and race, young people,

they often meet future marriage partners and

develop social networks that may last for

many years.

3.Creation of Generation Gap Students may learn information in

school that contradicts beliefs held by their parents or their religion.

A generation gap is created when education conflicts with parental attitudes and beliefs.