Multiple Choice Questions

Obesity is rising at the fastest rate in which of the following countries?
  • Correct Decrease obesity
  • Clean water access
  • Correct High income
  • Correct Socialized medicine
Which of the following is an example of legitimation
  • HIV spreading across the United States at a rapid rate in the 1980 s
  • Public and private insurance coverage
  • The high cancer rates surrounding a large manufacturing plant in New Mexico.
  • Marley s doctor diagnosing him with bronchitis
Which of the following best defines the concept of The Sick Role ?
  • The pattern of expectations that define appropriate behavior for the sick and for those who take care of them
  • HIV spreading across the United States at a rapid rate in the 1980 s
  • The high cancer rates surrounding a large manufacturing plant in New Mexico.
  • A publicly funded health care program which provides health services to people over 65 years old as well as people who meet other standards for disability
Sheryl was diagnosed with bipolarity when she was a teenager. She s hesitant to tell her friends, and tries her best to hide her diagnosis from her coaches, teachers, and employers, since she s seen other people with the illness be discriminated against on account of it. Bipolarity is an example of a(n):"
  • Symbolic interactionist
  • Correct High income
  • Stigmatized illness
  • The cultural meaning of illness
Shane believes that the commodification of health has created a large number of problems within the United States. From which sociological perspective does this come from?
  • Correct Socialized medicine
  • Marley s doctor diagnosing him with bronchitis
  • Public and private insurance coverage
  • Conflict theory+
In recent years, a great compulsion to engage in frequent and risky sexual behaviors was deemed sexual addiction. This is an example of:"
  • Correct Decrease obesity
  • Symbolic interactionist
  • Correct Socialized medicine
  • Medicalizatiof deviance
"Until 1973 homosexuality was considered a psychological disorder American Psychological Association. Which sociological perspective would be most concerned with why this was considered an illness, and what effect that diagnosis had on society?
  • The cultural meaning of illness
  • Symbolic interactionist
  • Medicalizatiof deviance
  • Stigmatized illness
What is one of the largest contributors to health problems in low-income countries?
  • Correct High income
  • Correct Decrease obesity
  • Talcott Parsons
  • Clean water access
The United States healthcare system consists of:
  • Public and private insurance coverage
  • Correct Socialized medicine
  • Marley s doctor diagnosing him with bronchitis
  • A publicly funded health care program which provides health services to people over 65 years old as well as people who meet other standards for disability
Which of the following would a social epidemiologist be likely to study:
  • HIV spreading across the United States at a rapid rate in the 1980 s
  • A publicly funded health care program which provides health services to people over 65 years old as well as people who meet other standards for disability
  • The pattern of expectations that define appropriate behavior for the sick and for those who take care of them
  • The high cancer rates surrounding a large manufacturing plant in New Mexico.
Medical sociology is the systematic study of:
  • The pattern of expectations that define appropriate behavior for the sick and for those who take care of them
  • The high cancer rates surrounding a large manufacturing plant in New Mexico.
  • "How humans manage issues of health and illness, disease and disorders, and health care for both the sick and the healthy"
  • A publicly funded health care program which provides health services to people over 65 years old as well as people who meet other standards for disability
Which of the following is NOT a result of the commodification of health care?
  • HIV spreading across the United States at a rapid rate in the 1980 s
  • The high cancer rates surrounding a large manufacturing plant in New Mexico.
  • The pattern of expectations that define appropriate behavior for the sick and for those who take care of them
  • Correct Decrease obesity
Which sociological perspective argues that sick people fill a societal role, and are stigmatized by society if they spend longer in that role than is appropriate?"
  • Universal healthcare
  • Functionalism
  • Underinsurance
  • Talcott Parsons
Taylor works as a legal assistant. His insurance doesn t cover treatment for depression, and he spends 15% of his income each month to receive care. This is an example of"
  • Universal healthcare
  • Underinsurance
  • Clean water access
  • Correct Socialized medicine
Dana s lives in a country which guarantees healthcare for all of its citizens. Dana lives in a country which uses
  • Correct Decrease obesity
  • Correct Socialized medicine
  • Clean water access
  • Universal healthcare
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