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Social Problems-Personal Troubles or Public Issues? Visual Essay I. Seeing Problems Sociologically Sociology and the Study of Social Problems The Bases of Inequality Visual Essay II. "Invisible" Dividing Lines Social Class and Poverty Race and Ethnicity Gender Sexual Orientation Age and Aging Our Social Institutions Visual Essay III. What Is a Family? Families Education Work and the Economy Health and Medicine The Media Our Social and Physical Worlds Visual Essay IV. Drug Legacy Alcohol and Drug Abuse Crime and Criminal Justice Cities and Suburbs The Environment War and Terrorism Individual Action and Social Change Visual Essay V. Thanks to Student Activists ... Social Problems and Social Action