SOCY 3052 Test Exam Questions & Answers 2023/2024
Talcott parsons, The social system, 1951 - ANSWER-- the sick role: appropriate norms, values, and behaviors for the sick person and others. Because of this people were motivated to get healthy and escape the deviant nature of illness
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SOCY 3052 Test Exam Questions &
Answers 2023/2024
Talcott parsons, The social system, 1951 - ANSWER-- the sick role: appropriate norms, values, and
behaviors for the sick person and others. Because of this people were motivated to get healthy and
escape the deviant nature of illness
- physicians exerted a social role and labeled illness and deviant and worked to return to healthy state
sociologist OF medicine - ANSWER-study medical environment from a sociological perspective.
- focus on health organizations, norms, values, and beliefs.
- work in colleges and universities
sociologist IN medicine - ANSWER-applied research motivated by medical problems
- work with physicians and other health personnel
- CDC, US department of health & human services
WHO definition of health - ANSWER-a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not
merely the absence of disease or infirmity
Primitive humans ideas about health - ANSWER-magic both causes and cures illness
- evil spirits cause illness
trepanation used in neolithic age (4000 years ago)
- drill hole in skull to release evil spirit
,Hippocrates, Ancient Greece (400 bc) ideas about health - ANSWER-hippocrates oath
- physicians help sick, do no harm, maintain confidentiality
empirically based medicine
- reject idea of supernatural; rely on rational thought
social determinants of health - ANSWER-- lifestyles, living and working environments
-Socioeconomic status
income, education, occupation (fundamental causes of health and longevity)
poverty, unemployment
-Stress
-Economic, political, geographic & religious factors
government policies and benefits
business cycles, unemployment trends
Stage 2 - ANSWER-deaths declined during the 1850's-1900's due to declines in infectious diseases
Stage 4 - ANSWER-lifestyles become increasingly important
- diets & exercise
, key reasons for the US health & longevity disadvantages - ANSWER-- access to healthcare
- gun violence
- food
- government subsidies
- mental health
- inequality
- exercise
- preventative health
- cigarettes, alcohol, and drug use
Important examples of bioethics - ANSWER-- nazi doctors conducted gruesome medical experiments in
wwII concentration camps
- Tuskegee syphilis study, Alabama, 1932-1972. Rural black men who had syphilis were not treated
factors that contributed to the reemergence of infectious diseases - ANSWER-- globalization of travel &
trade
- urbanization
- global warming and climate change
Natural causes that contributed to the reemergence of infectious diseases - ANSWER-- antibiotic
resistance
- pesticide-resistant insects
- new diseases uncovered by ecological disturbances (ebola)
Epidemiology - ANSWER-- interdisciplinary
- focus on origin and distribution of diseases
- increase focus on:
chronic conditions (heart disease, cancer)
unhealthy behaviors ( smoking, diet, inactivity, drinking, drug abuse)
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