Which town was shown to have a lesser degree of heart attacks?
Roseto (pg4)
100
What does social capital represent?
Investment of people in communal activity (pg 13)
100
What are the four type of suicide that Durkheim identified?
Egoistic, anomic, altruistic, fatalistic (p15)
100
The social capital theory has been refined to distinguish between hat three aspects?
Relational, material, and political aspects of social capital.
100
What decade was the Neoconservative Revolution?
1970's (page 28)
200
In Britain, the development of BLANK in the postwar period was closely associated with social security and the welfare state.
citizenship (pg. 8)
200
Why is Putnams research particularly important for medical sociology?
He demonstrated that the decline in social capital has a negative impact on health. (pg 12)
200
What were the topics of Emile Durkheim's 2 major publications?
Suicide and Civil Society (page 15)
200
Participation in religious services and clubs has a beneficial affect on the health of what group of people?
the elderly (pg 25)
200
High crime rates, social disorganization, domestic violence, and civil disturbance indicate low...
Social Capital (pg 28)
300
According to Turner, sociologists are interested in these 2 elements when studying the social causes of health and illness.
Social Involvement and Social Isolation (page 4)
300
Who provided the definition od social capital as, "resources embedded in a social structure that are accessed and/or mobilized in purposive actions."?
Nan Lin (pg 10)
300
According to extensive literature membership in what contributes to a decrease in psychological stress and protects against the principal forms of stress?
voluntary organizations (pg 20)
300
A society with effective social citizenship will enjoy higher levels of trust because citizens will be actively involved in what?
social activities and projects (pg 27)
300
This movement sought to improve health of individuals by improving the health of society through educational reform, the creation of democratic institutions, and the improvement of material and social infrastructure.
The Public Health Movement of the 1840's
400
Which produce better health outcomes: societies with high median incomes or egalitarian structure?
Egalitarian structure (p6)
400
In "Making Democracy Work," Putnam (1993) showed that civil society cannot function without....
social trust (pg 11)
400
Which theory indicates that social involvement protects individuals from episodes of sickness and from psychological depression?
social capital theory (pg. 16)
400
Two different versions of the social capital theory link which two things in regards to social capital?
income inequality and health (pg 27)
400
What is an example of the negative features of global neoconservatism? (2 options)
1. it diminishes the authority of the state and makes more difficult the achievement of welfare priorities. (pg 32)
2. it increases social inequality and reduces the level of social cohesion or (social capital) in a society. (pg 32)
500
What did Emile Durkheim’s study of Suicide (1957) lay the foundations for?
theories of social capital in contemporary medical sociology(p5)
500
Alexis de Tocqueville, in Democracy in America, demonstrated what is the bedrock of American democratic culture?
voluntary associations (pg 12)
500
Durkheim's studies of suicide and civil society prove the fertile theoretical ground in classical sociology that indicates an important relationship between what two things?
Social involvement (social capital) and individual well-being (health) (pg 17)
500
Which term describes what Durkheim called normlessness?
What is anomie (pg 28)
500
What are the two major criticisms of Coburn?
One is historical. The second is that Coburn has not identified the casual links between the absence of friendship, low self-esteem, low social status, and poor health. (pg 31)