SOCIOLOGY PAPER

Manifest and Latent Functions of Health Club

Manifest and Latent Functions of Health Club

Introduction

Manifest and latent functions were devised to preclude the inadvertent confusion, often found in the sociological literature, between conscious motivations for social behavior and its objective consequences. Our scrutiny of current vocabularies of functional analysis has shown how easily, and how unfortunately, the sociologist may identify motives with functions

Discussion

Manifest and latent functions of health club are those which are “up front”, apparent, obvious, and generally stated in health procedure manuals and sometimes in annual reports. Highly observable, manifest functions of disability services consist of the diagnosis, evaluation, and ...