Unintended Consequences
Unintended Consequences
Glossary of the social sciences
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Definition of unintended consequences
UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES: Many social actions have significant effects on the total sociocultural system (or other parts of that system) that were neither intended nor foreseen by the participants: Robert K: Merton developed the concepts of latent and manifest functions, as well as the concept of dysfunction, to better study these unintended consequences
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