CH 14 REVIEW QUIZ

(Q023) Use Paula England's research to predict what incoming college students will find on campus.

A culture of "hooking up."

(Q018) Worldwide, the greatest increase in HIV/AIDS is currently found in

Africa.

(Q017) In the United States today, what population has the highest incidence of HIV/AIDS infection?

African Americans

(Q013) What evidence suggests that racial disparities in health outcomes are not solely the consequence of socioeconomic factors?

Although Hispanics have lower average socioeconomic status than whites, they tend to have equally good or better health.

(Q008) Which of the following may be concluded from the discussion of sexuality and the revisions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)?

Although homosexuality is no longer considered a disorder, the psychiatric community continues to medicalize changes and variations in the social expression of gender and sexuality.

(Q019) What difference between the study of sexuality in the United States performed by Kinsey and the one performed by Laumann most likely explains the different results they obtained?

Kinsey's study was based on a convenience sample of social groups that may have been more likely to engage in a wider variety of sexual practices than the general population, whereas Laumann obtained a representative sample.

(Q006) Which of the following best illustrates a question of sociological interest concerning medicine, health, and illness?

How does where a person lives impact the risk of certain health issues?

(Q016) Why were infectious diseases so much more rampant in Europe than in the Americas in the pre-colonial era?

The conditions created by dense, settled populations of the type found in Europe were much more conducive to the spread of infectious disease than the smaller, more mobile populations in the Americas.

(Q014) What is one of the factors that contributes to the worse health outcomes of people in lower social classes?

The expense of health insurance and medical services in the United States leads many lower-class individuals to avoid getting medical attention when sick or injured.

(Q003) How do "food deserts" contribute to the prevalence of obesity in the United States?

They limit the accessibility of healthy foods and fresh produce in poor neighborhoods, leading people who live there to purchase more preserved and fast foods.

(Q010) Henry gets frequent migraine headaches. Although his doctor prescribed prescription pain medication, he decided instead to use acupuncture treatment and take herbal supplements exclusively, both of which are forms of __________ medicine.

alternative

Q002) Veronica's parents both have adult onset diabetes and she herself is overweight. Her doctor suggested that she walk daily for exercise as one way to prevent getting the disease herself. Unfortunately, it's difficult for her to walk in her neighborhood because the sidewalks are in disrepair. In addition, she works at a desk job and sits for most of the day. These obstacles are characteristic of

an obesogenic environment.

(Q024) Homophobia and transphobia usually _____, while heterosexism _____.

encompass individual level behaviors; stigmatizes groups and communities

(Q004) The differences in the kinds of measures women and, increasingly, men take to control or modify their bodies reflect

gendered differences in norms of physical attractiveness.

(Q001) According to the textbook, sociology of the body is a field that focuses o

how and why our bodies are affected by social experiences and the norms and values of groups to which we belong.

(Q012) Over the past fifty years, the inequalities in the physical health of blacks and whites in the United States has

improved somewhat, with blacks' health becoming somewhat improved.

Q015) Many researchers believe that the gender gap in mortality will continue to narrow in the coming decades, in part because women's life spans will erode and come to resemble men's. Part of this change may be due to th

increasing convergence of male and female roles and adoption of traditionally masculine behaviors by women.

(Q005) Obesity was once seen as a personal issue but has since come to be seen as a medical issue. This best exemplifies

medicalization.

(Q025) One of the social benefits of adopting Talcott Parson's "Sick Role" is a person in the sick role is

not looked down on or morally judged if they don't work.

(Q009) It was not until 1973 that the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its list of mental disorders, and 1980 from the subsequent editions of the DSM. Up until that time in the United States, homosexuality was classified as a disorder and something that could be treated. One of the main consequences of the change was that it

removed much of the stigma associated with being homosexual.

(Q021) Western attitudes towards sexuality and sexual practices have historically been strongly shaped by Christian views, which held that

sexual behavior that is not strictly limited to reproductive functions is sinful or unhealthy.

(Q011) The belief that a healthy body can be restored through scientifically based medical treatment, much like repairing a machine, is a main tenet of

the biomedical model of health.

Q007) What aspect of illness do symbolic interactionists focus on that is usually overlooked by functionalist theorists of health and illness?

the lived experience of illness and the meanings associated with it

(Q022) Research has suggested that same-sex and opposite-sex attraction is

the result of a complex interplay of biological and social factors.

(Q020) Human sexuality is

widely variable and influenced by culture.