The health care system is an example of an organized arrangement of relationships and institutions that form one basis of society-helping people when they are ill. Therefore, the health care system is part of __________.

A. the social structure
B. Durkheimian theory
C. a cultural marketing strategy
D. the sociological imagination


Answer: A

Sociology

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The movement of businesses from the central city to centers some distance from the old downtowns has created__________.

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