latent function

Examples of latent function in the following topics:

• The Functionalist Perspective

  • Education also provides an example of Merton's theory of manifest and latent functions.
  • A latent function of the public education system is the development and maintenance of a class hierarchy.
  • Thus, while education's manifest function is to empower all individuals to contribute to the workforce and society, its latent function is to create and maintain inequality.
  • Latent functions are its unintended functions.
  • Latent functions may be undesirable, but unintended consequences, or manifestly dysfunctional institutions may have latent functions that explain their persistence.

• Structural-Functionalism

  • Merton (1957) proposed a distinction between manifest and latent functions.
  • Manifest functions are the intended functions of a phenomenon in a social system.
  • Latent functions are the unintended functions of a phenomenon in a social system.
  • An example of manifest and latent functions is education.
  • A latent function of the public education system is the development of a hierarchy of the learned.

• Intelligence and Inequality

  • Although schools' manifest function is to educate and train intelligence, they also have latent functions like socializing students.
  • The manifest function of education is to transmit knowledge to students.
  • However, education also offers several latent functions, one of which is to foster social skills.
  • Manifest functions involve things people expect or can observe.
  • Latent functions are not generally recognized or intended; rather, they are a secondary effect of manifest functions.

• Latent Learning

  • Latent learning occurs without any obvious conditioning or reinforcement of a behavior, illustrating a cognitive component to learning.
  • Latent learning is a form of learning that is not immediately expressed in an overt response.
  • Latent learning implies that learning can take place without any behavioral changes being immediately present.
  • While most early studies of latent learning were done with rats, later studies began to involve children.
  • Edward Tolman was a behavioral psychologist who first demonstrated latent learning in rats.

• Cytomegalovirus Infections

  • All herpesviruses can stay latent for long durations.
  • CMV, like all herpesviruses, can stay latent for long durations of time.
  • It directly inhibits polymerase function by blocking the pyrophosphate binding site of pUL54 .

• The Nature and Meaning of Dreams

  • Freud's theory described dreams as having both latent and manifest content.
  • Latent content consists of deep unconscious wishes or fantasies, while manifest content is superficial and meaningless.
  • Manifest content often masks or obscures latent content.
  • The hypothesis states that the function of sleep is to process, encode, and transfer data from short-term memory to long-term memory through a process called consolidation.

• Latent Heat

  • The latent heat is the energy associated with a phase change of a substance.
  • where the latent heat of fusion, Lf, and latent heat of vaporization, Lv, are material constants that are determined experimentally.
  • Latent heat is an intensive property measured in units of J/kg.
  • Lf and Lv are collectively called latent heat coefficients.
  • Andrew Vanden Heuvel explores latent heat while trying to cool down his soda.

• Onset of Labor

  • Prodromal labor, which includes the latent phase of labor, marks the initial stages of parturition.
  • The latent phase is generally defined as beginning at the point at which the woman perceives regular uterine contractions.
  • Cervical effacement (the thinning and stretching of the cervix and cervical dilation) occurs during the closing weeks of pregnancy and are usually complete, or near complete, by the end of the latent phase.
  • The latent phase ends with the onset of the active phase, which is marked by an accelerated cervical dilation.

• Shingles

  • Shingles, the common name for herpes zoster, is caused by latent varicella zoster virus, the same virus which causes chickenpox in children.
  • Varicella zoster virus can become latent in the nerve cell bodies and less frequently in non-neuronal satellite cells of dorsal root, cranial nerve or autonomic ganglion, without causing any symptoms.
  • Exactly how the virus remains latent in the body, and subsequently re-activates is not understood.

• Behaviorism Advocates

  • Watson's basic premise was that conclusions about human development should be based on observation of overt behavior rather than speculation about subconscious motives or latent cognitive processes.
  • Pavlov was studying the digestive process and the interaction of salivation and stomach function when he realized that reflexes in the autonomic nervous system closely linked these phenomena.