Sociology Chapter 14

illness is impacted by social factors.

The fact that the top causes of death in the United States are due to chronic illness while people in the developing world are continually affected by the threat of acute illnesses indicates that:

how health and illness are shaped by social factors

What do sociologists ask you to consider regarding health and illness?

changes in use of the forests—logging or military use

Epidemiologists take into account the role of global climate change and its relationship to the spread of disease. In rural areas of Cambodia, epidemiologists have noted that social patterns are linked to the spread of mosquito-borne illness. Which of the following would they consider?

the social construction of mental illness.

In the early twentieth century women who had children out of wedlock were considered to be "feeble-minded" or to suffer from mental retardation and more likely to give birth to children who were also feeble-minded. Today, this attitude seems ridiculous. This is an example of:

a social phenomenon.

Liu, King, and Bearman (2010) found that independent of other factors, children living near other children diagnosed with autism are more likely to also be diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. this demonstrates that autism spectrum disorder is:

Marcia will live a longer, happier life than Mario

Marcia, a female, and Mario, a male, are both fifty-year-old Hispanics. Marcia has a similar socioeconomic status to Mario, but both of them adhere closely to traditional gender role expectations. According to information from Chapter 14, what prediction could we make about them?

universal health-care coverage that has the potential to ensure all U.S. citizens are covered.

The 2010 Health Care Reform Act (formally called the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act") represents:

it shows that death has been medicalized

Why is it important to address that, today, approximately 75 percent of patients die in hospitals or nursing homes in the United States?

Both public issues and personal troubles contribute to poor health, so work needs to be done at both levels to more properly address disease rates.

Wright Mills used the term "the sociological imagination" to refer to important interconnections between personal troubles and public issues. What would he have said about deprivation amplification?

have a number of ailments, like arthritis and asthma.

You are an American with a lower socioeconomic status. You are a racial minority, live in public housing, and did finish high school but work at a physically labor-intensive job. You are supporting a family of four on your wages. It is likely that you: