Medical Sociology 13th Edition by Cockerham - Test Bank
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Chapter 2
Epidemiology
Multiple Choice Questions
1. The primary focus of the epidemiologist is on:
a. Catastrophic disease outbreaks.
b. Societal demographics.
c. Health and wellness of children.
d. Individual’s diseases.
e. Health problems of social aggregates.
Answer: E Page: ...
1. Which is NOT a major area of investigation in medical sociology?
a. Social facets of health and disease.
b. Social behavior of health care personnel and their patients.
c. Social functions of health organizations and institutions.
d. The relationship of health care delivery systems to other systems.
e. All of the above answers are major areas of investigation in medical sociology.
Answer: E Page: 1
2. Medical sociology is an important area of study because:
a. It promotes the role biology plays in social life.
b. It represents a departure from the theory-heavy discipline of general sociology.
c. It recognizes the role that social factors play in determining or influencing health.
d. It is the result of a merger between medicine and sociology.
e. None of the above.
Answer: C Page: 1-2
3. Medical sociology, as a subdiscipline, began gaining strength:
a. It was always part of sociology as a major focus of classical sociologists.
b. After World War II with the infusion of large amounts of federal funding for
research.
c. Only in the last two decades when major worldwide health crises highlighted the
need for it.
d. It never has been a major part of sociology and exists only as a small part of the
medical field.
Answer: B Page: 2
4. Which circumstance(s) particularly affected the development of medical sociology in its
early stages?
a. Pressure to produce work that could be applied to medical practice and health
policy.
b. Rich development of theories unique to medical sociology by academic
sociologists.
c. Lack of attention on the role of medicine and health from classical theorists.
d. A and B
e. A and C
,5. The scholar who first provided a major theoretical approach for medical sociology was:
a. Durkheim.
b. Parsons.
c. Weber.
d. Mead.
e. Goffman.
Answer: B Page: 4
6. What important event occurred in 1951 that began to reorient American medical
sociology toward the use of theory?
a. The Vietnam War.
b. The publication of Parsons’s The Social System.
c. The increase in chronic diseases.
d. The growth of universities.
e. The political swing towards a more conservative era.
Answer: B Page: 4
7. Talcott Parsons’s book The Social System contained which concept important for medical
sociology?
a. Micro theory.
b. Medicalization.
c. Patient power.
d. Culture.
e. Sick role.
Answer: E Page: 4
8. In the case of the sick role, illness is seen as __________, and its undesirable nature
reinforces the motivation to be healthy.
a. Deviance.
b. Normal.
c. Biological.
d. Social.
e. A stimulus.
Answer: A Page: 4
9. In developing his concept of the sick role, Parsons linked his ideas to which two classical
theorists?
a. Marx and Goffman.
b. Weber and Marx.
c. Marx and Engels.
d. Durkheim and Weber.
10. What is NOT a task of a sociologist in medicine?
a. Analyze the social etiology or causes of health disorders
b. Study the differences in social attitudes as they relate to health
c. Understand the way in which the incidence and prevalence of a specific health
disorder is related to social variables.
d. Develop theory that assists in understanding social issues related to health.
e. All of these are tasks of a sociologist in medicine.
Answer: D Page: 5
11. Most sociologists of medicine are employed as:
a. Biostatisticians.
b. Hospital workers.
c. Professors at universities.
d. Researchers in governmental agencies.
e. Independent contractors.
Answer: C Page: 5
12. What trend(s) reduced tensions between sociologists in medicine and sociologists of
medicine?
a. Most government funding is awarded to research with practical application.
b. Medical sociology itself is converging with general sociology.
c. Sociology of medicine became the more dominant side of medical sociology.
d. A and B
e. B and C
Answer: D Page: 5-6
13. The World Health Organization defines health as:
a. Normality.
b. The absence of disease.
c. Ability to function.
d. A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being
e. All of the above.
Answer: D Page: 7
14. One of the earliest attempts in the Western world to formulate principles of health care,
based upon rational thought and the rejection of supernatural phenomena, is found in the
work of the Greek physician:
a. Hippocrates.
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