105: Manifest & Latent Roles -- Alvin Gouldner (Part 1)
b'Alvin Gouldner wrote the article, \\u201cCosmopolitans and locals: Toward an analysis of latent social roles\\u201d in 1957 to propose that through the 1950s latent roles had been seriously overlooked by scholars. Manifest roles, described as those roles and role identities that are directly related to one\\u2019s defined position in the organizational structure, had been the sole focus. Latent roles comprised the complementary roles that members made salient but were not officially recognized. Instead, managers might dismiss such roles as \\u201cirrelevant, inappropriate, or illegitimate\\u201d to recognize formally despite them being essential in the organization\\u2019s social fabric.'