TEST BANK
** All Chapters included
,Table of Contents are given below
1 A Brief Introduction to the Sociology of Health, Healing, and Illness
2 The Development of Scientific Medicine
3 Social Epidemiology
4 Social Stress
5 Health Behavior
6 Experiencing Illness and Disability
7 Physicians and the Profession of Medicine
8 Medical Education and the Socialization of Physicians
9 Nurses, Advance Practice Providers, and Allied Health Workers
10 Complementary and Alternative Medicine
11 The Physician–Patient Relationship
12 Professional and Ethical Obligations of Physicians in the Physician–
Patient Relationship
13 The United States Health Care System
14 Health Care Delivery
15 The Social Implications of Advanced Health Care Technology
16 Comparative Health Care Systems
, Chapter 1: A Brief Introduction to the Sociology
of Health, Healing, and Illness
Definitions:
Provide an accurate definition for each of the following terms.
1. Functionalism
[Answer: The sociological theory that views society as a system of interdependent parts that
work together to produce relative stability]
2. Interactionism
[Answer: The sociological theory that focuses on small-scale, day-to-day interactions among
people]
3. Conflict theory
[Answer: the sociological theory that views society as a system largely dominated by social
inequality; whatever societal order exists is thought to be dictated by powerful groups of
people]
4. Existing statistics
[Answer: A research method that relies on data often collected for other purposes, such as
hospital records, insurance claim forms, or birth and death certificates]
5. Experimental research
[Answer: The research method most suited to identifying cause and effect relationships by
subjecting only one of two similar groups to the independent variable]
Matching
Match the term with the appropriate definition. Not all terms are used.
Terms:
A. Excess mortality
B. Sociological perspective
C. Social medicine
D. Grand theory
E. Mid-range theory
6. Theories that attempt to be all-encompassing by unifying observed patterns in social
behavior and organization [Answer: D]
7. Theories that attempt to explain a specific behavior or social condition [Answer: E]
8. Deaths over and above the expected number in a given area for given time period [Answer:
A]
9. Views human behavior as shaped by the groups, organizations, and institutions to which
people belong [Answer: B]
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, Multiple Choice
[*Answer]
10. Medical sociology, as a sub-discipline of sociology, formally came into being in what time
period?
A. in ancient Greece with Hippocrates’ writings on medical ethics
B. in the late 1800s and early 1900s as a consequence of industrialization and urbanization
C. in the 1950s and 1960s as the field was institutionalized within the discipline of
sociology*
D. in the 1920s and 1930s as a result of the Great Depression
11. Which of the following factors facilitated the development of medical sociology during the
1950s and 1960s?
A. the shift in patterns of morbidity and mortality to lifestyle-related diseases
B. increasing attention to preventive medicine and public health
C. the increasing complexity of the health care system
D. all of the above *
12. The medical sociology-related journal sponsored by the American Sociological Association is
titled:
A. Medical Care
B. Social Science and Medicine
C. the Journal of Health and Social Behavior*
D. the Journal of Behavioral Medicine
13. Which of the following statements best captures the sociological perspective on human
behavior?
A. Every individual is unique. Therefore, explanations for human behavior only be found by
investigating these individual traits and characteristics.
B. While the social environment does have an influence, human behavior is mostly shaped
by genetics.
C. Human behavior is largely shaped by the groups to which people belong and the social
interaction that occurs within these groups.*
D. Human behavior is random and unpredictable, making it impossible to ascertain any
patterns.
14. Someone with a sociological imagination would most likely view heart disease as:
A. the result of a poor dietary and lifestyle choices by the affected individual
B. the result of changes in American society that have made unhealthy foods cheap and
plentiful and sedentary lifestyles common*
C. an unfortunate consequence of bad genes
D. a random event that follows no logical pattern
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** All Chapters included
,Table of Contents are given below
1 A Brief Introduction to the Sociology of Health, Healing, and Illness
2 The Development of Scientific Medicine
3 Social Epidemiology
4 Social Stress
5 Health Behavior
6 Experiencing Illness and Disability
7 Physicians and the Profession of Medicine
8 Medical Education and the Socialization of Physicians
9 Nurses, Advance Practice Providers, and Allied Health Workers
10 Complementary and Alternative Medicine
11 The Physician–Patient Relationship
12 Professional and Ethical Obligations of Physicians in the Physician–
Patient Relationship
13 The United States Health Care System
14 Health Care Delivery
15 The Social Implications of Advanced Health Care Technology
16 Comparative Health Care Systems
, Chapter 1: A Brief Introduction to the Sociology
of Health, Healing, and Illness
Definitions:
Provide an accurate definition for each of the following terms.
1. Functionalism
[Answer: The sociological theory that views society as a system of interdependent parts that
work together to produce relative stability]
2. Interactionism
[Answer: The sociological theory that focuses on small-scale, day-to-day interactions among
people]
3. Conflict theory
[Answer: the sociological theory that views society as a system largely dominated by social
inequality; whatever societal order exists is thought to be dictated by powerful groups of
people]
4. Existing statistics
[Answer: A research method that relies on data often collected for other purposes, such as
hospital records, insurance claim forms, or birth and death certificates]
5. Experimental research
[Answer: The research method most suited to identifying cause and effect relationships by
subjecting only one of two similar groups to the independent variable]
Matching
Match the term with the appropriate definition. Not all terms are used.
Terms:
A. Excess mortality
B. Sociological perspective
C. Social medicine
D. Grand theory
E. Mid-range theory
6. Theories that attempt to be all-encompassing by unifying observed patterns in social
behavior and organization [Answer: D]
7. Theories that attempt to explain a specific behavior or social condition [Answer: E]
8. Deaths over and above the expected number in a given area for given time period [Answer:
A]
9. Views human behavior as shaped by the groups, organizations, and institutions to which
people belong [Answer: B]
1
, Multiple Choice
[*Answer]
10. Medical sociology, as a sub-discipline of sociology, formally came into being in what time
period?
A. in ancient Greece with Hippocrates’ writings on medical ethics
B. in the late 1800s and early 1900s as a consequence of industrialization and urbanization
C. in the 1950s and 1960s as the field was institutionalized within the discipline of
sociology*
D. in the 1920s and 1930s as a result of the Great Depression
11. Which of the following factors facilitated the development of medical sociology during the
1950s and 1960s?
A. the shift in patterns of morbidity and mortality to lifestyle-related diseases
B. increasing attention to preventive medicine and public health
C. the increasing complexity of the health care system
D. all of the above *
12. The medical sociology-related journal sponsored by the American Sociological Association is
titled:
A. Medical Care
B. Social Science and Medicine
C. the Journal of Health and Social Behavior*
D. the Journal of Behavioral Medicine
13. Which of the following statements best captures the sociological perspective on human
behavior?
A. Every individual is unique. Therefore, explanations for human behavior only be found by
investigating these individual traits and characteristics.
B. While the social environment does have an influence, human behavior is mostly shaped
by genetics.
C. Human behavior is largely shaped by the groups to which people belong and the social
interaction that occurs within these groups.*
D. Human behavior is random and unpredictable, making it impossible to ascertain any
patterns.
14. Someone with a sociological imagination would most likely view heart disease as:
A. the result of a poor dietary and lifestyle choices by the affected individual
B. the result of changes in American society that have made unhealthy foods cheap and
plentiful and sedentary lifestyles common*
C. an unfortunate consequence of bad genes
D. a random event that follows no logical pattern
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