By: elisaeltink • 3 year ago
Some examples from this set of practice questions
1.
What are difficulties with the objectivist approach?
Answer: - Conditions that might be deemed harmful aren\'t always identified as social problems - The same condition may be identified as a social problem for very different reasons - Our lost of social problems includes widely diverse phenomena
2.
What is the definition of subjectivist approach?
Answer: The subjectivist approach defines social problems in terms of people\'s subjective sense that something is or not a problem.
3.
What is social construction?
Answer: The way people assign meaning to the world (mostly by using language)
4.
What are the six stages of the natural history of social problems?
Answer: 1. Claimsmaking 2. Media coverage 3. Public reaction 4. Policymaking 5. Social problems work 6. Policy outcomes
5.
What are cultural resources?
Answer: The fund of words, ideas, images and emotional reactions that most people understand to be reasonable
6.
What is the difference between impairment and disability (according to disabled people)?
Answer: Impairment: is the functional limitation within the individual caused by physical, mental or sensory impairment. Disability: is the loss or limitation of opportunities to take part in the normal life of the community on an equal level with others due to physical and social barriers.
7.
What is medicalization?
Answer: The process of defining troubling conditions as medical problems
8.
What are foodways?
Answer: Foodways refer to the cultural and social practices that affect food consumption, including how and what communities eat, where and how they shop and what motivates their food preferences.
9.
What is the critical public health approach?
Answer: Critical public health is an approach that challenges the status quo in public health, questions what have come to be defined as problems, and breaks down fundamental assumptions by considering them within the context of the social systems in which they are created.
10.
Why is the social model not useful according to the global South?
Answer: - There is no comprehensive concept for disabled people as a category. - Disability is just one of the problems people cope with - Impairment touches a majority of the population (e.g. malnutrition) - There is no government capable or willing to remove barriers - There is insufficient medical care - Children with impairments are often abandoned by their families - Impairments are the result of civil war
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