SYO 4400 EXAM STUDY GUIDE
1. Sociolization: The process by which we learn the ways of society
2. Pathology: The process by which the disorder, illness and malady are defined, diagnosed and labeled.
3. Epidemiology: Branch of medical science concerned with the incidence, distribution, and control of diseases
that attect large numbers of people.
4. Incidence: Disease is the number of new cases occurring in a specific period.
5. Prevelance: Percentage of a population that exhibits a disorder during a specified time period
6. Reification: 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)
7. Operationalization: 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
8. Acute illness: An illness that has a rapid onset, usually severe and intense, and subside after a relatively short
time. Result of infectious disease.
9. Chronic illness: 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.
10. Durkheim study: found that suicide rates were not related to things like alcoholism, race, heredity,etc. but
were related to changes in collective sentiments like depression.
11. Durkheim classifications: 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 suttering ie. prisoner who hangs
himself Anomic "normlessness"
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, 12. Durkheim results: 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.
13. Anomie: Durkheim's term for a condition in which society provides little moral guidance to individuals.
14. Sick role: A socially recognized set of rights and obligations linked with illness.
15. Structural functionalism: A paradigm that begins with the assumption that society is a unified whole
that functions because of the contributions of its separate structures.
16. Symbolic interaction: society is complex and interlocking of ditterent changes. ie. labeling approach
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1. Sociolization: The process by which we learn the ways of society
2. Pathology: The process by which the disorder, illness and malady are defined, diagnosed and labeled.
3. Epidemiology: Branch of medical science concerned with the incidence, distribution, and control of diseases
that attect large numbers of people.
4. Incidence: Disease is the number of new cases occurring in a specific period.
5. Prevelance: Percentage of a population that exhibits a disorder during a specified time period
6. Reification: 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)
7. Operationalization: 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
8. Acute illness: An illness that has a rapid onset, usually severe and intense, and subside after a relatively short
time. Result of infectious disease.
9. Chronic illness: 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.
10. Durkheim study: found that suicide rates were not related to things like alcoholism, race, heredity,etc. but
were related to changes in collective sentiments like depression.
11. Durkheim classifications: 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 suttering ie. prisoner who hangs
himself Anomic "normlessness"
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, 12. Durkheim results: 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.
13. Anomie: Durkheim's term for a condition in which society provides little moral guidance to individuals.
14. Sick role: A socially recognized set of rights and obligations linked with illness.
15. Structural functionalism: A paradigm that begins with the assumption that society is a unified whole
that functions because of the contributions of its separate structures.
16. Symbolic interaction: society is complex and interlocking of ditterent changes. ie. labeling approach
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