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Water pollution, pornography, and marijuana usage are clear-cut examples of social problems.
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Collective solutions are employed to help individuals to deal with personal troubles.
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Personal troubles do not become public issues unless an influential group defines them as such.
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Most Americans belong primarily to one clearly defined subculture.
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A theory is a set of statements that explains the relationship between phenomena.
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The functionalist and conflict approaches are examples of macrosociology.
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The conflict perspective uses the analogy of a biological organism in which all parts are in conflict with the whole.
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Functionalists believe that all parts of society are interdependent and work together to maintain a society's structure.
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An example of a latent function of a university is to reduce unemployment by keeping some adults out of the job market.
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People's commonsense beliefs about social problems are often false.
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