QUIZ: Chapter 14: Health and Illness

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

How health and illness are shaped by social factors.

Sid feels horrible. He goes to his doctor, who tells Sid he has a bad cold and should feel better soon. How would Sid's illness be classified?

Acute.

Ori went to eat at their favorite restaurant and got food poisoning. Their illness what treated right away. This type of illness would be classified as:

Acute.

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:

Illness is impacted by social factors.

Obesity is now often treated with surgery. Previously, weight loss was not usually considered a medical problem that could be addressed through surgery. This is evidence of:

Medicalization and the social construction of health and illness.

As the process of ___ developed, we will be less likely to treat someone who has a mental health issue as having something that he or she should just "deal with" alone. Instead, we will be more likely to think of the issue as having to do with a disease.

Medicalization.

Kea tries to take good care of herself. She works out regularly, gets plenty of rest, and eats well. Her approach to health is MOST closely aligned with:

Preventive medicine.

In the ___ approach to addiction, people who become addicted may be responding to strains in the social system and their own lives by escaping through drugs and alcohol.

Structural functionalism.

A man recently learned that he has a mental illness. Since his diagnosis, he has begun to act according to the illness and in ways he thinks others expect someone with a mental illness to act. Which theory of health and illness best explains his situation?

Symbolic interactionalism.

Good health is:

socially defined