Healthcare
This group is historically considered to have professional dominance in the US healthcare system.
Who are physicians?
A sociological theory in which economic relations are believed to influence all other social institutions.
What is Marxism?
Using complicated, occupation-specific language to describe what you are saying that creates social boundaries and makes you appear to have expertise.
What is jargon?
This region of the United States produces the most military recruits.
What is the South?
An institution that has an overarching role in organizing other social institutions
What is a meta-institution?
These facilities are not often associated with medical care in the popular imagination, but have come a key site of healthcare for low-income people.
What are prisons and jails?
A theoretical perspective that can help us understand how war can actually contribute to social integration through the creation of in- and out-groups.
What is functionalism?
Only consuming media from one of these three media companies leads to a reduced likelihood of one getting vaccinated for COVID-19.
What is Fox Media, Newsmax, or Facebook?
This racially integrated movement was made up of men who fought during WWI and some of their family members who argued for pay for their service and full social citizenship for their members.
What is the Bonus Army?
An example of this type of liberty is freedom from governmental censorship of free speech.
What is a negative liberty?
This is an example of a social movement that has challenged medical authority in the last 50 years.
What are the Civil Rights movement, Disability Rights movement, Feminist health movement, Patients’ rights movement, or “Consumer” rights movements?
This theorist argued that religion shapes the economy, rather than the other way around.
Who is Max Weber?
The only scientifically proven form of forensic science that did not fit into the definition of "junk science."
What is nuclear DNA analysis?
These three factors contribute to higher military recruitment among people of lower socioeconomic status.
What are
1. Targeted military recruitment practices
2. Education/Financial benefits
3. Limited Alternatives?
The largest proportion of people in the criminal justice system are under this form of supervision.
What is probation?
This is when the authority of an institution bleeds onto any individual that is a member of the profession/institution (often due to trust in standardized licensing and training).
What is institutionalized trust?
This form of inquiry aims to examine the social organs and institutions of the city to identify the conditions that lead to unusual morality rates, such as the excess death after a heatwave in Chicago.
What is a social autopsy?
Adherents to one of these religions tend to view science, including evolution, as in conflict with religion.
Judeo-Christian religions, especially Evangelical Christians and Protestant Christians.
This form of masculinity is associated with an increased likelihood for sexual aggression, misogynistic beliefs, and men’s perpetration of sexual assault
What is hyper-masculinity or militaristic masculinity?
These are two key ways (that we focused on during "The State" week in class) that federal and local government help fund the criminal justice system.
What are fines and fees?
Paul Starr argues these two things needed to happen within the healthcare system had to occur for allopathic doctors (curing via opposites, who developed into our current medical doctors) to gain professional dominance and authority in the healthcare system.
What are mechanisms of legitimization and mechanisms of dependency?
Mechanisms of Legitimization:Standardization of education and licensing
Mechanisms of Dependency: Hospitalization keeping patients away from home and forcing them to endure doctors’ orders; Gatekeeping for services and medicines; and Health insurance only paying physicians
W.E.B. Du Bois argued that white Americans used Christian teachings to provide ________--or the idea that no matter their economic position, white people were still better than subhuman Black persons--which helped justify violence and legitimize injustice.
What is a psychological wage?
An assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, causes the expected event to occur, thus confirming the prediction.
What is a self-fulfilling prophecy?
This type of horizontal (i.e., between peers) socialization can undermine formal socialization policies and appears to contribute to high levels of sexual assault in the military.
What is informal socialization?
Government is said to be the only actor who has the right to the legitimate use of this noun.
What is the legitimate use of violence or force?