Exam Bank for SYO 4400- Questions Answered Correctly (Already Passed)
Sociolization - Answers The process by which we learn the ways of society
Pathology - Answers The process by which the disorder, illness and malady are defined, diagnosed and
labeled.
Epidemiology - Answers Branch of medical science concerned with the incidence, distribution, and
control of diseases that affect large numbers of people.
Incidence - Answers Disease is the number of new cases occurring in a specific period.
Prevelance - Answers Percentage of a population that exhibits a disorder during a specified time period
Reification - Answers The process by which we take an idea and view it to be objectively real and true.
(often despite the lack of ability to observe it.)
--Seen with medical authority (whatever comes from the field of medicine is widely to believe
instantaneously true)
Operationalization - Answers the process of assigning a precise method for measuring a term being
examined for use in a particular study. Some variables are easier to indicate more than others
Acute illness - Answers An illness that has a rapid onset, usually severe and intense, and subside after a
relatively short time. Result of infectious disease.
Chronic illness - Answers An ongoing illness, slow or gradual in onset; it has no known cure; the illness
can be controlled and complications prevented with proper treatment. Result of long term lifestyle and
environmental exposures.
Blue Zones- areas in the world with unexplained extended longevity
These areas have high social engagement and plant-based diets.
Durkheim study - Answers found that suicide rates were not related to things like alcoholism, race,
heredity,etc. but were related to changes in collective sentiments like depression.
Durkheim classifications - Answers Egoistic- lack of social integration ie. recluse with few friends or
family.
Altruistic- too much social integration and society pushing the person to end their life ie. Sumuri who
commits suicide once his master dies.
Fatalistic- lack of hope and suffering ie. prisoner who hangs himself
Anomic "normlessness"
, Durkheim results - Answers Protestant had the highest rate of suicide. Rates higher for people not
married without children. Rates higher for men. Times of peace had more suicide than times of war.
Anomie - Answers Durkheim's term for a condition in which society provides little moral guidance to
individuals.
Sick role - Answers A socially recognized set of rights and obligations linked with illness.
Structural functionalism - Answers A paradigm that begins with the assumption that society is a unified
whole that functions because of the contributions of its separate structures.
Symbolic interaction - Answers society is complex and interlocking of different changes. ie. labeling
approach
Postmodern theory - Answers Postmodern theory fundamentally rejects established bodies of
knowledge. It is a rejection of the notion of modern "progress"
Conflict theory - Answers sees society as a continual competition between social groups over scarce
resources and power.
The bourgeoisie are those who sustain based on what they own.
The proletariat are those who sustain by selling their labor to the bourgeoisie.
Holism - Answers Attempts to understand phenomena in a way that is contextualized within all of its
influential factors.
It attempts to integrate psychological and spiritual health with the physical body.
Arteact explanatory model - Answers We see different health outcomes based on class because of the
way we pathologist and conceptualize health and class.
Validity - Answers is how accurate you are actually measuring the construct variable you are trying to
measure
Reliability - Answers is how consistent you are in getting the same results for cases in which the results
should be the same.
Morbidity - Answers disease incidence figures presented as rates or number of reports per 100,000
people. Significantly more of a socially defined concept.
Mortality - Answers incidence of death in a given population. Not nearly as socially defined. Generally
speaking dead is dead.
Social selection model - Answers Poor health is what makes people lower class and not the other way
around.
Sociolization - Answers The process by which we learn the ways of society
Pathology - Answers The process by which the disorder, illness and malady are defined, diagnosed and
labeled.
Epidemiology - Answers Branch of medical science concerned with the incidence, distribution, and
control of diseases that affect large numbers of people.
Incidence - Answers Disease is the number of new cases occurring in a specific period.
Prevelance - Answers Percentage of a population that exhibits a disorder during a specified time period
Reification - Answers The process by which we take an idea and view it to be objectively real and true.
(often despite the lack of ability to observe it.)
--Seen with medical authority (whatever comes from the field of medicine is widely to believe
instantaneously true)
Operationalization - Answers the process of assigning a precise method for measuring a term being
examined for use in a particular study. Some variables are easier to indicate more than others
Acute illness - Answers An illness that has a rapid onset, usually severe and intense, and subside after a
relatively short time. Result of infectious disease.
Chronic illness - Answers An ongoing illness, slow or gradual in onset; it has no known cure; the illness
can be controlled and complications prevented with proper treatment. Result of long term lifestyle and
environmental exposures.
Blue Zones- areas in the world with unexplained extended longevity
These areas have high social engagement and plant-based diets.
Durkheim study - Answers found that suicide rates were not related to things like alcoholism, race,
heredity,etc. but were related to changes in collective sentiments like depression.
Durkheim classifications - Answers Egoistic- lack of social integration ie. recluse with few friends or
family.
Altruistic- too much social integration and society pushing the person to end their life ie. Sumuri who
commits suicide once his master dies.
Fatalistic- lack of hope and suffering ie. prisoner who hangs himself
Anomic "normlessness"
, Durkheim results - Answers Protestant had the highest rate of suicide. Rates higher for people not
married without children. Rates higher for men. Times of peace had more suicide than times of war.
Anomie - Answers Durkheim's term for a condition in which society provides little moral guidance to
individuals.
Sick role - Answers A socially recognized set of rights and obligations linked with illness.
Structural functionalism - Answers A paradigm that begins with the assumption that society is a unified
whole that functions because of the contributions of its separate structures.
Symbolic interaction - Answers society is complex and interlocking of different changes. ie. labeling
approach
Postmodern theory - Answers Postmodern theory fundamentally rejects established bodies of
knowledge. It is a rejection of the notion of modern "progress"
Conflict theory - Answers sees society as a continual competition between social groups over scarce
resources and power.
The bourgeoisie are those who sustain based on what they own.
The proletariat are those who sustain by selling their labor to the bourgeoisie.
Holism - Answers Attempts to understand phenomena in a way that is contextualized within all of its
influential factors.
It attempts to integrate psychological and spiritual health with the physical body.
Arteact explanatory model - Answers We see different health outcomes based on class because of the
way we pathologist and conceptualize health and class.
Validity - Answers is how accurate you are actually measuring the construct variable you are trying to
measure
Reliability - Answers is how consistent you are in getting the same results for cases in which the results
should be the same.
Morbidity - Answers disease incidence figures presented as rates or number of reports per 100,000
people. Significantly more of a socially defined concept.
Mortality - Answers incidence of death in a given population. Not nearly as socially defined. Generally
speaking dead is dead.
Social selection model - Answers Poor health is what makes people lower class and not the other way
around.
