Sentence examples for latent functions from inspiring English sources

Distinctions have been made between manifest functions, those consequences intended and recognized by participants in the system, and latent functions, which are neither intended nor recognized.

The correlations carry the latent functions that can operate synergetically to a varying extent.

According to Jahoda (1982), employment has latent functions that meet the various psychological needs of individuals.

This is because it provides five latent functions: (1) a time structure, (2) social contacts, (3) participating in collective goals, (4) status and identity, and (5) regular activity.

The result of this research shows that although employment can provide financial compensation and multiple latent functions meeting the psychological needs of individuals, employment itself does not necessarily uplift one's sense of happiness.

This complex adaptive system is differentiated horizontally in terms of the three (or more) functional codes of the communication (economic, scientific, political) and vertically in terms of observable relations versus latent functions.

- Dr. James Gilligan, author of "Violence: Reflections on a Western Epidemic" "To use sociological jargon, the latent function of hazing is that it differentiates and separates one from, and at the same time makes one feel superior to, whatever mainstream you're defining yourself against.

He defined the interrelationship between social theory and empirical research, advancing a structural-functional approach to the study of society and creating the concepts of manifest and latent function and dysfunction.

Thirdly, we explore Kalman filter on this state space model to efficiently filter out the latent function values for prediction.

Secondly, we use the latent function values of these collections as the unknown states and then construct a novel state space model with GP prior.

Secondly, based on our state space model, we design a marginalized particle filter to infer the latent function values and learn the model parameters online.