The functionalist approach maintains that poverty
a. has negative functions for society.
b. has positive functions for the more affluent.
c. exists as a negative incentive to work.
d. all of the above.
D
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a. industrialization b. the sociological imagination c. countless glocalizations d. solidarity
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a. a lack of data to base them on. b. the rarity of divorce. c. people who remarry. d. differing meanings of "divorce."
In about what percentage of rapes and attempted rapes on college campuses does the woman know her attacker?
a. 10 percent b. 30 percent c. 70 percent d. 90 percent