"a tangle of relations between the mind at work and the world in which it works" is a definition of

The answer is the cognition as this is the one being referred as the connections which are tangled between the mind at work. The cognition falls in every human being whenever they process or gain knowledge or information as cognition is a type of mental process that exist in every individual.

world war i had a devastating effect on german-americans and their cultural heritage. up until that point   german-americans, as a group, had been spared much of the discrimination, abuse, rejection, collective mistrust experienced by so many different racial and ethnic groups in the history of the united states. indeed, over the years, they had been viewed as a well integrated and esteemed part of american society. all of this change with the outbreak of war.  

manifest functions are the recognized and intended consequences of any social pattern, while latent functions are those unrecognized and unintended consequences. to analyze the manifest functions of any social institution, we have to study its contribution to the continuation of a group, community, or society.