Automobiles provide transportation and independence. They also cause a great deal of air pollution and contribute to global warming. Merton would consider these negative impacts to be __________.

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Merton would consider the negative impacts of automobiles - air pollution and contribution to global warming - to be dysfunctions, as they are unintended consequences that disrupt the social system (in this case, the environment).

Automobiles Provide Transportation and Independence