Evaluating and Selecting competent individuals 4. Transmitting functional skills for functoning in society. Provide methods for the production of goods and services. Provide methods for the distribution of goods and services. Enable societies members to consume goods and services which are produced.
All activities have, or result in certain functions.
These functions may be thought of as the effects of an activity. Manifest Function are those functions which are both recognized and intended. Latent Function are those functions which are neither intended nor readily recognized.