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Social Problems: to receive full credit for the essays you must rely on your text to support you answers.
Part A
1. Explain how HMO's work and explain the advantages and disadvantages of such plans.
2. Discuss changes in marital roles and how this impacts marital dissatisfaction. Please include one way that couples can increase satisfaction in their marriage.
3. Explain why an increasing number of people choose to cohabit instead of marry.
4. Discuss the controversy of genetically modified foods and the people involved.
5. List the possible consequences of global warming. What is one thing each of us can do to reduce the consequences of global warming?
Part B.
1. Compare and contrast common sense and sociological approaches to understanding social problems. What do sociologists mean when they say something is socially constructed? Please give an example of a social construct.
2. Explain how the Supreme Court's Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition decision impacted child pornography. Also, what can you do to help stop human trafficking?
3. Compare and contrast how the three main theories used by sociologists to explain what society is, what social problems are and how social problems develop.
4. Discuss the three problems with Social Security that creates conflict between old and young. Also, do we have a Social Security crisis why/why not?
5. Compare and contrast the benefits and consequences of the proposed social policies for dealing with the drug problem in the United States.