How social change impacts the latent and manifest functions of the social institution of education?
Latent and manifest functions are Robert Merton’s terms for the consequences of any social action/institution. A manifest function is the conscious, deliberate result and the latent function is the unintended consequence. So, an example of social change effecting education that fits this model could be integration. During/after the civil rights movement, when schools became racially integrated, a manifest function would be that African Americans could now obtain the same education as whites. A latent function could be the short-term conflicts that erupted from the white kids opposed to their new school mates. If these latent and manifest functions of education already exist, social change could impact them by attempting to decrease the bad latent functions (dysfunctions). Am I going in the right direction? If you want to provide more details to clarify your question more, I can try for a better answer.
