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An erosion gully in Australia caused by rabbits, an unintended consequence of their introduction as game animals. In the social sciences, unintended consequences (sometimes unanticipated consequences or unforeseen consequences, more colloquially called knock-on effects) are outcomes of a purposeful action that are not intended or foreseen.
The unintended negative consequences are clearly documented and sometimes severe: [40] school suspension and expulsion result in a number of negative outcomes for both schools and students. [39] Although the policies are facially neutral, minority children are the most likely to suffer the negative consequences of zero tolerance. [42]
The American Psychological Association concluded that the available evidence does not support the use of zero-tolerance policies as defined and implemented, that there is a clear need to modify such policies, and that the policies create a number of unintended negative consequences, [28] [29] including making schools "less safe".
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Manifest functions are the consequences that people see, observe or even expect. It is explicitly stated and understood by the participants in the relevant action. The manifest function of a rain dance, used as an example by Merton in his 1957 Social Theory and Social Structure, is to produce rain, and this outcome is intended and desired by people participating in the ritual.
The unintended consequences of this legislation could have negative impacts on our state for generations. ... I’ve spoken to students who are afraid for their parents and grandparents ...
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Edward W. Conard is an American businessman, author and scholar. He is a New York Times-bestselling author of The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class and Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You've Been Told About the Economy Is Wrong; a contributor to Oxford University Press' United States Income, Wealth, Consumption, and Inequality, [1] and the publisher ...