Health & Illness
Health and illness are impacted by social class, race, and _____.
gender inequality
A heterosexual couple raising their children in the same household is defined as a(n) ________ family.
nuclear
What is an example of a social institution?
multiple answers (can include education, religion, family, marriage, military, politics, economics, etc.)
Diagnostic framing
Denise feels horrible, so she visits a doctor. The doctor tells Denise that she has a bad cold and should feel better soon. How would Denise’s illness be classified?
acute illness
________ is what sociologists call marriage to someone within one’s social group.
Endogamy
What is the term that is defined as the lessons that students learn indirectly through the method in which the curriculum is presented and the way the school is organized (2 words)
hidden curriculum
The most important contributions to social change have been made through _____ _____ (2 words).
collective action
______ _____ is the study of the effects of social and cultural factors on health, illness, disease, and medicine (2 words).
medical sociology
Family friends who are referred to as “Aunt” or “Uncle” are examples of _______ ____
fictive kin
What is an example of extrinsic religiosity?
multiple answers (can include wearing a cross necklace, going to church every Sunday, saying prayer before eating, observing religious holidays like Ash Wednesday)
What type of social movement promotes forward-thinking social change?
Progressive movements
As the process of ________ develops, we will be less likely to treat someone who has a mental health issue as having something they should just “deal with” alone. We will instead be more likely to think of the issue as having to do with a disease.
medicalization
_________ is the tendency to marry or have relationships with people who are in close geographic proximity.
propinquity
According to C. Wright Mills, there is a ______ _____, which is a small number of people who have several important positions in society and control the economic, political, and military institutions of a society. (2 words)
power elite
What is one source of social change?
major physical events, demographic factors, discoveries and innovations
In the past, a woman in North Carolina would have been found guilty of “lewd and lascivious association” if she lived with her boyfriend. Her behavior today would be known as _______.
cohabitation