In Conrad’s article, Illness and the Internet: From Private to Public Experience, the authors note that with the advent of social media, communication has:
| A. | destroyed all possibility for one on one interactions | |
| B. | increased a need to belong | |
| C. | increased and brought new challenges for online interaction | |
| D. | totally left out the elderly |
In Young and Disabled, Stephanie McCarty, who has Multiple Sclerosis noted that she was frustrated because people often:
| A. | stare too much | |
| B. | ask her what she does for a living | |
| C. | pretend she's not there | |
| D. | none of the above |
In At the Will of the Body, Reflections on Illness [Valuing Illness], Arthur Frank tells the reader that when he was ill, he valued:
| A. | just being with others | |
| B. | all the medical professionals | |
| C. | his pet poodle | |
| D. | his work career |
Those who frame their research questions in terms of public issues, rather than personal troubles, can be said to use
| A. | the sociological perspective | |
| B. | functionalist theory | |
| C. | psychoanalysis | |
| D. | a public health perspective |
The term illness is used to refer to...
| A. | the social experience of living with a disease | |
| B. | the biological consequences of disease | |
| C. | an objective measure of biological changes | |
| D. | sociologists' ideas regarding epidemiology |
The term illness is used to refer to...
| A. | the social experience of living with a disease | |
| B. | the biological consequences of disease | |
| C. | an objective measure of biological changes | |
| D. | sociologists' ideas regarding epidemiology |
Which of the following is true?
| A. | White women live longer than white men, but African-American men live longer than African-American women. | |
| B. | African-American women live longer than African-American men, but white men live longer than white women. | |
| C. | Among both African Americans and whites, men live longer than women. | |
| D. | The same diseases are the most common causes of death among both men and women |
Research suggests that...
| A. | although women complain about illness more often than men, they actually experience fewer illnesses. | |
| B. | men’s higher mortality rate in part reflects their traditional gender role | |
| C. | at each age, women have higher rates of fatal illnesses. | |
| D. | women are biologically weaker than men |
The primary cause of low life expectancy in the less developed nations is
| A. | dictatorship | |
| B. | poverty | |
| C. | religious warfare | |
| D. | genetic defects |
Chronic malnutrition can cause
| A. | brain damage | |
| B. | blindness | |
| C. | mental retardation | |
| D. | infant mortality |
Chronic malnutrition in the less developed nations can best be explained by
| A. | overpopulation | |
| B. | lack of natural resources | |
| C. | population density | |
| D. | the social distribution of food and other resources |
Of the following, which currently causes the most deaths in the less-developed nations?
| A. | HIV infection | |
| B. | pneumonia | |
| C. | influenza | |
| D. | cholera |
Medicalization refers to....
| A. | the process of developing new drugs to treat a given illness | |
| B. | treatment offered by medical doctors | |
| C. | the process of defining a condition or behavior as an illness | |
| D. | the growing number of doctors in the United States |
Which of the following is an underlying assumption of the sociological theory of functionalism?
| A. | Society is a smoothly-working, integrated whole | |
| B. | Society is held together by coercion and constraint | |
| C. | Deviance is necessary for society to evolve | |
| D. | Society's needs often conflict with individuals' needs |
Talcott Parsons’ term for how society views sick people and how sick people should behave is
| A. | functionalism | |
| B. | deviant behavior | |
| C. | dysfunctional behavior | |
| D. | the sick role |
The most common underlying reason for disability among adults between the ages of 18 and 65 is
| A. | fibromyalgia | |
| B. | contested illnesses | |
| C. | chronic pain | |
| D. | mental illness |
The health belief model
| A. | recognizes that sometimes patients can’t follow medical advice because they lack transportation to clinics or face other practical barriers. | |
| B. | assumes that patients can make reasonable judgments about whether they should follow medical advice. | |
| C. | assumes noncompliance with medical occurs solely because of patients’ attitudes and beliefs. | |
| D. | recognizes that medical advice can sometimes be harmful. |
Morbidity refers to
| A. | deaths | |
| B. | illness | |
| C. | infections | |
| D. | chronic fatigue syndrome |
1.C. increased and brought new challenges for online interactions
2.A Stare too much
3.A Just being with others
4.A the sociological perspective
5.A a social experience of a person living with a disease
6 B African-American women live longer than African-American men, but white men live longer than white women.
7.B. men’s higher mortality rate in part reflects their traditional gender role
8.B. Poverty
9.D. the social distribution of food and other resources
10.A. HIV infection
11.C. the process of defining a condition or behavior as an illness
12.A. Society is a smoothly-working, integrated whole
13.B. deviant behavior
14.B. contested illnesses
15.B. assumes that patients can make reasonable judgments about whether they should follow medical advice
16.B. Illness
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