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Analyse the manifest and latent functions of ‘security of the tenure of the bureaucrats’ in the light of Merton’s theory.

  • UPSC 2016
  • Sociological Thinkers

For Robert K. Merton (Social Theory and Social Structure, 1949), manifest functions are consequences intended and recognised by participants. Latent functions are neither, and consequences can also be dysfunctional. Security of tenure is a deliberate design: Article 311 of the Constitution bars dismissal or reduction in rank of a civil servant without inquiry and a…

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  • Manifest functions
  • Latent functions
  • Latent dysfunctions
  • The unanticipated shift to transfers
  • Net balance
  • Conclusion

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