Article on the dirty little secret of credential inflation

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What does Robert Merton mean by "manifest functions" and "latent functions"? (Your textbook -- Ritzer and Stepnisky, 2022, p. 113 - doesn't have many examples of these famous terms, and so finding more elsewhere is advisable, just to help your understanding.) How might these terms be applied to Randall Collins' article on "The Dirty Little Secret of Credential Inflation?" Provide a mini summary of the Collins essay as you proceed

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