SOC 353: Sociology of Medicine

General Sociology

100

A socially constructed human classification system that is used to distinguish between groups of people who share phenotypical characteristics.

Race

200

The interaction and cumulative effects of multiple types of discrimination that affect the daily lives of individuals – especially women of color and Black women.

Intersectionality

300

A society's categorization of people into rankings based on factors like education, income, and power.

Social Stratification

400

The connection of individual and personal experiences with greater social structures.

Sociological Imagination

500

This is the process by which neighborhoods were outlined on maps by realtors and local governments by perceived danger levels on the basis of racial composition.

Redlining

Mixed Bag

100

T/F: More than 50% of Americans say there is little to no acceptance of trans people in society

FALSE

200

What is one reason that women were incarcerated historically?

STDs or sexual behavior

300

Increases in public health problems, increases in electric bills, and decreases in clean water and air are being influenced by what?

AI data centers

400

This experience is associated with low iron levels, depression, anxiety, diabetes, and hypertension.

Food Insecurity

500

This racial group makes up nearly 70% of those receiving SNAP.

White people.

General Sociology of Medicine

100

According to the World Health Organization, this concept is defined as "a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or injury."

Health

200

Those with higher levels of _____ often are of better health.

Education

300

T/F: Black and white women die of breast cancer at the same rate.

FALSE. Black women are 40% more likely to die than white women from breast cancer.

400

Medical sociologists have argued that if someone has a close friend who experiences this condition, their risk of also experiencing said condition increases by 150%.

Obesity

500

Another way to define this concept is "the ability to function," (Dubos 1981).

Health

Life Course

100

This condition, felt by all people at varying levels at varying times, is associated with disease and mental health problems.

Stress

200

This process of life is associated with gains in emotional well-being.

Aging

300

T/F: Adverse Childhood Effects (ACE) are experienced by less than 55% of children in the U.S.

FALSE – 60% experience ACE.

400

As we grow older, social networks do what in size?

Decrease

500

Which racial group is at greater risk of losing their mothers, fathers, siblings, spouses, and children than white Americans?

Black Americans

Historical

100

In this study, physicians lied to subjects about the treatment of this disease. Black men were thought to be affected most greatly due to their "underdeveloped" brains.

Tuskegee Syphilis Study

200

The "father of American gynecology" performed procedures on which group without anesthesia?

Enslaved Black women

300

This medical procedure has been used to control "undesirable" populations like immigrants, disabled people, people of color, unmarried women, and poor people throughout U.S. history. 

Coerced sterilization

400

In this institution, people were used as laboratory experiment subjects and were given products containing radioactive isotopes and chemical warfare agents in the 1950s-70s.

Holmesburg Prison, PA

500

This term is assigned to those who were medical students or professional thieves who stole (predominantly Black) cadavers for medical research. When googled, this is often considered folklore. 

Night Doctors