The text illustrates the three basic perspectives on social problems by showing how they explain the problem of __________.

A. unemployment
B. mental illness
C. criminal deviance
D. poverty


Answer: C

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____________ is the ability to carry out your will and impose it on others

a. Prestige b. Power c. Pragmatism d. Class consciousness

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In Rusbult's typology of relational conflict, the approach that involves avoiding the conflict but remaining committed to the partner is

(a) neglect (b) voice (c) exit (d) loyalty

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Recent studies of families headed by single mothers have found that children raised in single-mother families created by the death of a father

A. fare better than children raised in divorced single-mother families. B. fare worse than children raised in divorced single-mother families. C. have lower levels of educational attainment than children raised in single-mother families. D. have lower levels of happiness in adulthood than children raised in single-mother families.

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In his analysis of the French peasants, Marx doubted that they could become a subjective class because:

a. reform movements improved the conditions under which they lived b. the nobility had no difficulty repressing their political demands c. they were not aware of their situation as a class d. they were not severely exploited

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