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The United States is the only industrialized nation that does not provide universal healthcare to its citizens.

Illness is socially constructed.  What counts as illness and what to do about it are things that vary from one society to another.

Social movements are more likely to develop in industrialized societies than in preindustrial societies.

In the United States, lobbying by the gun industry resulted in a law that prohibited researchers at the Centers for Disease Control from receiving federal funding for their research into gun violence, resulting in a dearth of reliable research on gun violence for more than two decades.

Cities that provide opportunities for people’s protests to be heard within urban governments are less likely to have extensive protests or riots in their communities.

_____ groups seek to influence lawmakers and candidates, but they promote a more limited agenda than political parties.

The family you are born into is your family of _____.

The _____ is the institution that manages the work in a society – material resources, human resources, production, distribution, etc.

_____ is power that is perceived as legitimate, both by the powerholder and those who are subject to the powerholder.

When the U.S. was founded, neither women nor non-Whites had the right of suffrage.