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Functionalism on Education: Latent Functions

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Latent functions of education are its hidden, unintended byproducts, such as courtship, social networks, and political and social integration.

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A network formed among classmates decades ago persists today mainly through a professional social-media group, a channel the curriculum never intended to build.

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Latent functions are still real effects; unintended is not the same as unimportant.