How does structural functionalism explain poverty?
A. Upper- and middle-class lawmakers regularly support corporate welfare but reject such welfare ideas for the poor as a guaranteed minimum annual income.
B. Poverty became a social problem in the United States when people accepted that people remain poor when they define their poverty as the result of their own deficiencies.
C. The upper and middle classes oppress and exploit the poor and create ideologies that blame the poor and justify their poverty.
D. Political, economic, and educational institutions are not functioning adequately, so that old arrangements are obsolete before new arrangements are in place.
Answer: D
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