According to Robert Merton, What Is the Difference Between Manifest

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Multiple Choice

According to Robert Merton, what is the difference between manifest and latent functions?

• A) Manifest functions usually have something to do with social conflict and change.
• B) Manifest functions are intended and obvious.
• C) Manifest functions are accidental and often hard to recognize.
• D) Manifest functions are designed to alleviate inequality.
• E) Manifest functions are designed to critique the social system that produced them.

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Definitions:

Degrees of Freedom

The count of independent pieces of information available to estimate another statistic, crucial in defining the distribution of various test statistics.

Contingency Table

A table used in statistics to display the frequency distribution of variables to show the relationship between them.

Level of Significance

The probability of rejecting the null hypothesis in a statistical test when it is in fact true; commonly set thresholds include 0.05 or 0.01.

Null Hypothesis

The null hypothesis is a statement or hypothesis that there is no significant difference or effect, typically to be tested against an alternative hypothesis.