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Sociology exam 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| explanations of illness have shifted remarkably in the last 200 years | false |
| sociologists believe illness is an objective category; what is considered an illness is generally agreed upon | false |
| geneticization is a form of medicalization | true |
| prescientific ideas about illness | illness was a religious explanation or punishment |
| medical model of illness | objective, nonmoral, apolitically labeled, biologically sourced |
| sociological model of illness | subjective, moral, politically labeled, social systems |
| how was medicine used as social control | medicine as an institution (structures in society that work to meet human needs), biomedical institution (how medicine, science, and tech work together), social control (how to get people to adhere to normal behavior), social control agents |
| medicalization | things that were once seen as normal parts of life become viewed through a medical lens |
| example of a managed care organizer | health insurance providers |
| functionalist | everyone has a sick role that fits in social norms and tells us how a sick person should act and be treated |
| 4 tenets of the sick role | reason for not fulfilling role in society is legitimate, beyond individual control, should try to get better, should seek medical care |
| the sociological model of disability defines it as barriers to performing normal activities due to defects with someone's body or mind | false |
| people who experience disability are considered a minority group because they | true |
| process of defining, interpreting, and responding to symptoms is referred to an illness behavior | true |
| medical model of disability | defect or something wrong with someone's mind or body; solution = rehab |
| sociological model of disability | assumption about what bodies is or should be capable of doing are reflected in the environment; solution = social change |
| chronic pain | sometimes from injury or illness, sometimes there is an identifiable cause, sometimes there is not |
| contested illness | health condition whose cause, diagnosis, symptoms, or legitimacy are disputed by medical professionals, patients, or society |
| who is more likely to have a disability | poor people, women, people of ethnicity, elderly |
| who is more likely to have chronic pain | poor, women, minorities, elderly |
| illness behavior model | symptoms are frequent, persistent, visible, lack alternative explanations for their symptoms, family and friends encourage medical care, no psychological, economic, or practical barriers from accessing health |
| where can people find health information | internet, publicly available diagnostic tests, consumer health technology/products |
| how is chronic pain and disabilities managed | strict treatment plans, compliance, knowing how to take meds, health literacy |
| alternative therapies | treatments are rarely taught in medical school and rarely used in hospitals, often used by women under the age of 65 |
| goals of health social movements | equal or general access to care, increase coverage or fight loss of coverage, acknowledgement of contested disease |
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