WRITTEN REPORT

Manifest Function
Group 9

Contribution of Education to Society

1. Creating More Employment Opportunities

• Finding a job is not easy, especially in times of economic turmoil. You often need to
compete with hundreds of other candidates for a vacant position.
- Furthermore, the lower the education level, the more individuals apply for the
same low-paying entry-level position. However, if you have the necessary skills
and educational background, you will have a better chance of finding a rewarding
career. Do you want to find a strategy to stand out in a crowd of applicants?
Learn, educate yourself, graduate, and obtain as many credentials, skills,
information, and experience as you can.
2. Securing a Higher Income
• People with higher education and varied experience are more likely to get high-
paying, expert jobs. Study hard, dedicate your time and effort to acquire knowledge
and reach a high level of competence if you would like to lead a comfortable lifestyle.
- Your credentials are what will persuade a potential employer to hire you over
another candidate. Studying hard throughout your school and studies
demonstrates that you are not frightened of hard work and are capable of
achieving your goals. Employers regard this as a significant benefit because they
all desire a responsible and competent employee. After you graduate, you may
begin looking for positions that will allow you to put what you've learned into
practice while also providing you with enough money to meet your goals.
3. Developing Problem Solving Skills
• One of the benefits of education is that the educational system teaches us how to
obtain and develop critical and logical thinking and make independent decisions.
- When children become adults, they are faced with a lot of challenging issues –
pay off your student loans, get a job, buy a car and a house, provide for your
family, etc. However, if one has spent years educating themselves, they should
be able to make sound decisions on these various quandaries. Not only are
people able to form their own opinions, but they are also good at finding solid and
reliable arguments and evidence to back up and confirm their decisions.
4. Improving the Economy
 • People with good academic and educational backgrounds tend to get well-paid jobs.
The higher their education and accomplishments, the better employment options
they get.
- People who grew up poor but educated themselves have a high possibility of
changing their life and so contribute to a reduction in the poverty rate in society.
Education helps countries develop economically because it is about acquiring
knowledge and being able to use it wisely to our lives while also improving the
lives of others.
5. Providing A Prosperous and Happy Life
• Education has always secured respect from society. In order to ensure a comfortable
lifestyle, people should educate themselves and obtain a well-paid job to be
successful and satisfied.
- In addition, being able to own your own house gives stability and boosts self-
esteem. It contributes to the creation of a positive environment for families and
communities. "Children of homeowners are 116% more likely than children of
renters of the same age, race, and income to graduate from college." According
to University of Tennessee studies, they are also 25% more likely to graduate
from high school, have higher math and reading scores, and have less
behavioral difficulties.
6. Giving Back to the Community
• How does education benefit society? Educated people understand how valuable it is
to live in a stable and secure community. They are more prone to taking part in
projects that help improve not only their neighborhood but society, as well.
- In addition, when people are able to afford their own home, they are more likely
to take part not only in improving their homes but in solving local problems, as
well. After all, it is quite important to get involved and give a hand to the less
fortunate ones in order to build a better place for all of us to live in.
7. Creating Modern Society
• Education is of key essence for modern society. One needs to learn about culture,
history and other important aspects so that they would be able to contribute to
modern society.
- Education shapes individuals into leaders not just by providing them with
information about (college) courses, but also by teaching them how to lead with
emotions and true values. People who are educated can quickly distinguish
between what is good and bad, hence education helps to minimize crime. Bad
things are happening all around the world; only capable leaders can help us stay
on the right track.
8. Bridging the Borders
• Digital education helps connect with people and organizations around the world.
Borders are no longer there.
 - Being able to communicate and share opinions with people from other countries
and cultures, widens horizons and helps us understand and appreciate each
other.
9. Creating Equal Opportunities
• The importance of education in society has always been great as it is irrespective of
caste, race, gender, religion.
- Educated people are treated as equals on the basis of their knowledge and
competence. Furthermore, educated individuals are open-minded and capable of
listening to and accepting other people's points of view, regardless of how unlike
they are. Education provides the opportunity to live independently thus being
free.
10. Introducing Empowerment
• Education is the key to turn a weakness into a strength. It offers different tools and
ways to understand problems that lay ahead of us and helps resolve them.
- More importantly, education gives us the mental agility we need to make sound
judgments and respond quickly when necessary. Many studies demonstrate that
educated women can more readily face up to gender bias and marital abuse
because their decision-making abilities have improved.

What is Manifest Function?

• Manifest functions are the functions that people believe are the obvious purpose of
school. They include the academic curriculum and functions like socialization and the
transmission of cultural norms and values to new generation.
• Manifest function refers to the intended function of schools policies, processes, or
actions that are consciously and deliberately designed to be beneficial in their effect on
society.
• Are the consequences of social process that are sought or anticipated.
• This function also prepares students to enter the workplace and the world at large,
where they will continue to be subject to people who have authority over them.
• This function is prepared to social placement.
- Manifest functions stem from all manner of social actions but are most commonly
discussed as outcomes of the work of social institutions like family, religion,
education, and the media, and as the product of social policies, laws, rules, and
norms.
- Education gives us a knowledge of the world around us and changes it into
something better. It develops in us a perspective of looking at life. It helps us
build opinions and have points of view on things in life. People debate over the
subject of whether education is the only thing that gives knowledge.
 - Functions that are intended and easily recognized, and the goal is to train
people, educate students to learn values, moral, and discipline. It is a school
spirit that provides support and encouragement to students.
Manifest Function of Education
• Are the open and intended goals for consequences of activities within organization or
institution.
• Include providing students with intellectual framework, imparting practical skills, and
conveying society’s values.
- The conscious and deliberate intention of the institution is to produce educated
young people who understand their world and its history and who have the
knowledge and practical skills to be productive members of society. Similarly, the
conscious and deliberate intention of the institution of media is to inform the
public of important news and events so that they can play an active role in
democracy.
- Manifest function of school is a function that people believe is obvious purpose of
school and education. Manifest functions of education are those that are
intended and most people think about it. For example, in elementary school,
parents expect their children to learn new information but also how to get along
with other children and begin to understand how society works.

6 Major Manifest Function of Education in Society

1. SOCIALIZATION – teach students role, specific academic subjects and political

socialization.
- In school, we also learn social skills through our interactions with teachers, staff,
and other students. For example, we learn the importance of obeying authority
and that to be successful, we must learn to be quiet, to wait, and sometimes to
act interested even when we're not. Students don't just learn from the academic
curriculum prepared by teachers and school administrators.
2. SOCIAL CONTROL – schools are responsible for teaching values.
- Schools can further goals of social control by socializing students into behaving
in socially acceptable ways. By means of social control, students are taught the
boundaries of acceptable behavior. Education may sustain social control through
a variety of strategies, including indoctrination, informal and formal sanctions.
3. SOCIAL PLACEMENT – school are responsible for identifying the most qualifies people
to fill available positions in society.
- Because education and educational institutions identify the most competent
persons to occupy vacant jobs in society, education is seen as one of the agents
 of social placement. One's social position in society had been determined by
schooling.
4. TRANSMITTING CULTURES – as a social institution education performs a rather
conservable function, transmitting the dominant culture.
- Education serve as a transmitter for transmitting knowledge, skills, and social
moral rules of culture which may help the individual to know about something
more about his/ her culture.
5. PROMOTING SOCIAL AND POLITICAL INTEGRATION – education serves the latent
function of promoting political and social integration.
- The educational institution promotes both social and political integration in
society. It is accomplished by transforming the many religious and ethnic groups
into a single or single community with a shared identity. Through education,
different groups that are divided by religion or ethnicity are brought together to
form a community that has certain common characteristics.
6. AGENT OF CHANGE – education can stimulate or bring about desired social change.
- Education also functions as a change agent. It encourages and results in
desirable social changes in society. The institution fosters social change by
acting as a gathering place. This gathering place is where all of society's specific
beliefs and traditions are shared. According to several research, an increase in
formal schooling years is connected with one's receptivity to new ideas as well as
more liberal, social, and political points of view.

MANIFEST FUNCTION OF RELIGION VS. MANIFEST FUNCTION OF EDUCATION

- Historians and social scientists have written about the relationship of two may
influence each other, religion and education have long had a close relationship.
- Manifest function of religion may serve to confirm a common sense of ethics,
preserve social order, and impose cultural standards on a societal level. These
are some visible functions of religion, in the sense that they are planned and
desired outcomes of religious activity.
- Manifest functions of education are those that are intended and that most people
think about. For example, in elementary school, parents expect their children to
learn new information but also how to 'get along' with other children and begin to
understand how society works.
- Manifest functions of religion include providing meaning and purpose, promoting
social cohesion, and promoting social control. Manifest functions of education
include socialization and promoting social integration.

Robert Merton’s theory of Manifest Function

• American sociologist Robert K. Merton laid out his theory of Manifest Function (and latent
function and Dysfunction too) in his 1949 books Social Theory and Social Structure.
- As a part of his functionalist perspective on society, he took at close look at
social actions and their effects and found manifest functions could be defined
very specifically as the beneficial effects of conscious and deliberate actions.

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