COMM 216 EXAMINERS SET ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Economic vs. cultural vs. social capital - ✔✔A person's total financial assets vs.
specialized skills and knowledge, including linguistic and cultural competencies passed
down through family or personal experiences in social situations vs. networks or
connections among people who can help one another
✔✔Socioeconomic status - ✔✔Determined by the combination of income, education,
and occupation
✔✔Generational vs situational poverty - ✔✔Poverty that spans two or more generations
vs. a shorter amount of time in poverty that is generally caused by circumstances
✔✔Types of resources - ✔✔Financial (the money to purchase goods and services),
emotional (the endurance to withstand difficult and uncomfortable emotional situations
or feelings), mental (the mental abilities and acquired skills needed to deal with
everyday life), physical (having a body that works and is capable and mobile), and
spiritual (the belief that help can be obtained from a higher power that one has a
purpose for living)
✔✔Support systems - ✔✔Safety nets that help people take care of themselves in
situations where they would otherwise be unable
✔✔Health communication - ✔✔The construction and sharing of meanings about the
provision of health care delivery and the promotion of public health through mediated
channels
✔✔Biomedical vs. biopsychosocial models - ✔✔States that doctors operate much like
mechanics and scientists, looking for physical signs/symptoms of what is wrong vs. a
holistic approach that states that ill health is caused by many physical, social, and
environmental factors
, ✔✔Eastern and western medicine - ✔✔Describes disease as a signal that the body is
out of balance and it should be viewed as a reminder to slow down and take better care
of ourselves vs. relies on the scientific method and the principle of verification to
understand what causes ill health
✔✔Stigma - ✔✔A social rejection in which the stigmatized people are ignored and/or
dishonored
✔✔Communication theory of identity - ✔✔Illustrates how individuals make assumptions
about each other based on their backgrounds, and helps explain how
misunderstandings occur in the medical context
✔✔Identity salience and intensity - ✔✔The importance of one aspect of a person's
identity in relation to other aspects; the degree to which we express or communicate our
identity
✔✔Convergence vs. divergence - ✔✔Refers to the way people use symbols to come
together, overlap on ideas, or express common ground vs. occurs when a person acts
differently from the other; such as facing one's body away when the other person is
trying to face forward
✔✔Marginalization - ✔✔Health disparity influenced by variations in SES, such as
income, amount of debt, education, occupation, and property; lower SES relates to
more negative emotions and thoughts, which in turn relates to poorer health
✔✔Health literacy - ✔✔Understanding and being able to act on medical and health
information
✔✔Diversity - ✔✔A term used to describe the unique differences among people; these
differences are based on a variety of factors such as ethnicity, race, heritage, religion,
gender, sexual identity, age, social class, etc.
✔✔Affirmative action - ✔✔A set of public policies and initiatives designed to help
reverse and eliminate past and present discrimination based on race, color, region, sex,
or national origin
✔✔Cultural diversity awareness - ✔✔Being aware of the diversity present in any
working or social environment
✔✔Globalization - ✔✔An integration of economy and technology that creates a
worldwide and interconnected work environment
✔✔Organizational culture - ✔✔Underlying, shared values that provide organization
members with behavioral norms in the workplace
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Economic vs. cultural vs. social capital - ✔✔A person's total financial assets vs.
specialized skills and knowledge, including linguistic and cultural competencies passed
down through family or personal experiences in social situations vs. networks or
connections among people who can help one another
✔✔Socioeconomic status - ✔✔Determined by the combination of income, education,
and occupation
✔✔Generational vs situational poverty - ✔✔Poverty that spans two or more generations
vs. a shorter amount of time in poverty that is generally caused by circumstances
✔✔Types of resources - ✔✔Financial (the money to purchase goods and services),
emotional (the endurance to withstand difficult and uncomfortable emotional situations
or feelings), mental (the mental abilities and acquired skills needed to deal with
everyday life), physical (having a body that works and is capable and mobile), and
spiritual (the belief that help can be obtained from a higher power that one has a
purpose for living)
✔✔Support systems - ✔✔Safety nets that help people take care of themselves in
situations where they would otherwise be unable
✔✔Health communication - ✔✔The construction and sharing of meanings about the
provision of health care delivery and the promotion of public health through mediated
channels
✔✔Biomedical vs. biopsychosocial models - ✔✔States that doctors operate much like
mechanics and scientists, looking for physical signs/symptoms of what is wrong vs. a
holistic approach that states that ill health is caused by many physical, social, and
environmental factors
, ✔✔Eastern and western medicine - ✔✔Describes disease as a signal that the body is
out of balance and it should be viewed as a reminder to slow down and take better care
of ourselves vs. relies on the scientific method and the principle of verification to
understand what causes ill health
✔✔Stigma - ✔✔A social rejection in which the stigmatized people are ignored and/or
dishonored
✔✔Communication theory of identity - ✔✔Illustrates how individuals make assumptions
about each other based on their backgrounds, and helps explain how
misunderstandings occur in the medical context
✔✔Identity salience and intensity - ✔✔The importance of one aspect of a person's
identity in relation to other aspects; the degree to which we express or communicate our
identity
✔✔Convergence vs. divergence - ✔✔Refers to the way people use symbols to come
together, overlap on ideas, or express common ground vs. occurs when a person acts
differently from the other; such as facing one's body away when the other person is
trying to face forward
✔✔Marginalization - ✔✔Health disparity influenced by variations in SES, such as
income, amount of debt, education, occupation, and property; lower SES relates to
more negative emotions and thoughts, which in turn relates to poorer health
✔✔Health literacy - ✔✔Understanding and being able to act on medical and health
information
✔✔Diversity - ✔✔A term used to describe the unique differences among people; these
differences are based on a variety of factors such as ethnicity, race, heritage, religion,
gender, sexual identity, age, social class, etc.
✔✔Affirmative action - ✔✔A set of public policies and initiatives designed to help
reverse and eliminate past and present discrimination based on race, color, region, sex,
or national origin
✔✔Cultural diversity awareness - ✔✔Being aware of the diversity present in any
working or social environment
✔✔Globalization - ✔✔An integration of economy and technology that creates a
worldwide and interconnected work environment
✔✔Organizational culture - ✔✔Underlying, shared values that provide organization
members with behavioral norms in the workplace
